Importance of statistics in agriculture. Descriptive statistics. Probability distributions. Point and Interval estimation. Hypothesis testing. Analysis of variance (ANOVA). Correlation and Regression analysis. Survey design and sampling techniques. Data entry and analysis using MS EXCEL and MINITAB.
IT and IT applications, computers. Input and Output Devices. Applications Software and Utilities. The Internet. Concept of WEB 2.0 tools. Targeted web searches. Use of social media tools for scientific communication; sharing and collaborative tools. Cloud computing.
