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Saturday, March 8, 2014

Spring 2014 Class: Mid-term Exam

Dear Students

Your Mid-term exam will be conducted on Monday March 19, 2014. Details are below:

Place: S-321
Timings: 08:15 am - 09:30 am
Weight-age: 25 %
Marks: 40
Pattern: MCQs, short questions and problems

Topics: Scope of biostatistics, use of statistics in biology, misuses of statistics and how to find a misuse; terminology in biostatistics: population and sample, variable or factor, classes, groups, class limits, boundaries; scales of measurement; stages of research; types of data and methods of data collection, data collection, summarizing information and presentation; measures of central tendency: computation of mean, median and mode from grouped and ungrouped data; measures of dispersion: computation of variance, standard deviation, formation of tables; probability: simple probability: conditional – mutually exclusive and non-exclusive, independent and dependent.

Be on time and bring your own stationary etc. Cellular phones are not allowed during the exam. Bring your own calculator. Use of cell phone as calculator will not be allowed in any case.

Good luck.

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