About the Book

The first edition of the book ‘Statistics for Agricultural Sciences’ was well received textbook. The author has thoroughly revised and updated the Second Edition with addition of a new chapter ‘Multivariate Statistical Methods’. Statistics is a basic subject, taught at Agriculture, Veterinary and Home Science colleges. It gives an insight to plan, classify, tabulate, analyse and interpret data available from fields and research activities. This book is also useful to agri-business management and Biotechnology students, who require knowledge of statistics in their courses.

Salient Features of Second Edition

·          New chapters on Multivariate Statistical Methods and Data Analysis are added

·          Experimental designs in Agronomy, Plant Breeding, Animal Breeding and Plant Physiology are provided

·          Sample Surveys, Economic Statistics and Non-Parametric Statistics are thoroughly covered

Contents

PART I STATISTICAL METHODS 1. Introduction 2. Collection, Classification and Tabulation of Data 3. Frequency Distribution 4. Measures of Location 5. Measures of Dispersion 6. Moments, SKewness and Kurtosis 7. Elementary Probability 8. Binomial and Poisson Distributions 9. Normal Distribution 10. Tests of Hypothesis 11. Chi-Square Distribution 12. Correlation and Regression 13. Multiple Regression and Correlation 14. D2–Statistics and Discriminant Functions 15. Introduction to Probit Analysis PART II EXPERIMENTAL DESIGNS 16. Experimental Designs PART III SAMPLE SURVEYS, ECONOMIC AND NON-PARAMETRIC STATISTICS 17. Sampling Methods 18. Economic Statistics 19. Non-parametric Statistics PART IV MULTIVARIATE STATISTCAL METHODS 20. Multivariate Statistical Methods

About the Author

Gadiraju Nageswara Rao has retired as Associate Dean, Professor and Head of the Department of Statistics and Mathematics, College of Agriculture, Acharaya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Hyderabad. He has more than 40 years of teaching experience and has published more than 48 research papers in National and International Journals. He has guided more than 300 M.Sc and Ph.D students in Agriculture, Veterinary and Home Sciences in Statistical Methodology. Presently he is Visiting Professor to Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, and Osmania University, Hyderbad.