PAPER I: KUF 231- FOREST MENSURATION AND BIOSTATISTICS-

Forest Mensuration: Definition, importance and principles of measurements, System of units and accuracy implied in their expression, Measurements of diameter, girth (circumference) of trees and standard rules of breast height measurement, Bark thickness and tree height measurement and their instruments, principles of height measurement and its measurement at different field conditions, Method of studying tree stem, form- form factor, form quotient, form point and taper table, Volume of tree: definition, object and measurement of volume of felled and standing trees, classification and use of volume tables, Age of trees: object and methods of determination of age of standing and felled trees, Growth of tree, measurement of growth by increment borer and growth curves, Increment, increment percent, CAI and MAI curves.

Biostatistics: Scope and importance of biostatistics in forestry, collection, presentation and summarization of statistical data, frequency distribution, diagrammatic and graphical representation of data, Measures of central tendency (mean, mode and median), measures of dispersion, mean deviation, standard deviation and standard error, Simple correlation and regressions, Elementary idea on probability- binomial and normal distribution, Test of
significance: based on normal, t and X2 test, Sampling techniques: Simple, random, stratified and systematic sampling.