COURSE CODE: AEM 304
COURSE TITLE: Applied Statistics for Agriculture
NUMBER OF UNITS: 2 Units
COURSE DURATION: Two hours per week
COURSE DETAILS:
Course Coordinator: Dr. M.A. Shittu, B.Sc., M.Sc., PhD
Email: amshittu@yahoo.com
Office Location: Agric. Econs & Farm Mgt. Department, COLAMRUD
Other Lecturers: Dr. Sanusi
COURSE SYNOPSIS
Types of applied statistics, Review of hypothesis testing, types and sources of agricultural data, elements of sampling technique, elements of field experimentation, questionnaire design, data processing and spread sheet construction, data presentation, analysis of variance, some non-parametric methods , methods of times series analysis and forecasting, use and application of index numbers, correlation analysis, simple linear regression. This course will emphasis applications of all concepts taught to real agricultural data.
