About the Book:

The second edition of the book “Statistics for Agricultural Sciences” was well received by students and staff for whom it was intended. The author has thoroughly revised and updated the second edition and included SPSS data analysis Procedure for all the popular statistical methods and experimental designs in view of the latest trend of using statistical packages in data analysis using live examples.

The author also included new chapter 21 on “Econometrics” to cater to the needs of M.Sc. and Ph.D. students of Agriculture Economics and Business Management/Administration.

This book covers all the courses in Statistics taught to B.Sc., M.Sc. and Ph.D students in Agriculture, Veterinary and Home Science Faculties in I.C.A.R system. This book is also useful to all the P.G. and Ph.D. students of Biology and Bio-technology students. This book also serves as useful reference book to staff members for guiding M.Sc., Ph.D. students in statistical analysis for their thesis work and also for their personal research projects.

Salient Features of Third Edition

• New chapter on Econometrics is added
• Data Analysis using SPSS Package is presented for most of the popular statistical Methods and Experimental Designs
• The entire text is thoroughly revised and updated
• Some more new worked out examples are included for the benefit of students

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 Hypotheses

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 Statistical Methods

20.        Multivariate Statistics Methods

Part V: Econometrics

21. Two-Variable Linear Model

About the Author:

Dr. Gadiraju Nageswara Rao has retired as Associate Dean, Professor and University Head, Department of Statistics and Mathematics, College of Agriculture, Acharya N.G. Ranga Agricultural University, Rajendranagar, Hyderabad. He has more than 50 years of experience in teaching to Agriculture, Veterinary and Home Science students and has published 48 research papers in National and International Journals.

            He was awarded “State Best Teacher Award” by Government of Andhra Pradesh in 2000. He was visiting Professor to Temple University, Philadelphia, U.S.A. in 1998 and visited Australia, Philippines and Thailand on Study assignment in 2000 as Associate Dean.

            He guided 300 M.Sc. and 200 Ph.D. students in the faculties of Agriculture, Veterinary and Home Science in Statistical analysis for their thesis work as minor  advisor.

            He is author of text books “ Statistics for Agricultural Sciences”, Bio-Statistics and Computer Applications” and “Research Methodology and Quantitative Methods” published by B.S.Publications, Hyderabad, Telangana.

            He also served as ‘Consultant Statistician’ for 7 years for the world Bank aided project “Community Based Tank Management Project (CBTMP)” implemented in States of          Andhra Pradesh and Telangana from 2009-2016.