PAPER V: KUF 475- COMPUTER APPLICATION IN FORESTRY AND BIOSTATISTICS-

Basic computer organization (input/output, storage unit, ALU, CU, CPU), memory storage, Operating system, basic concept of computer software, Biostatistics -scope and importance in forestry, collection presentation and summarization of statistical data, frequency distribution, diagrammatic and graphical representation of data, Measures of central tendency, 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.