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• Definition of Bio-statistics, vis-à-vis the type of variables and observations in biological sciences.
• Health and medical sciences, Uniqueness in terms of behavior of variables their domain, and units.
• Categorical. Numerical and censored data.
• Population, Target populations and samples; Role of sampling in bio-statistics, Size of samples of various types of studies.
• Proportions, rates and rations; incidence, prevalence and odds. Distributional behavior of biological variables (Binomial, Poisson and Normal).
• Role of transformation for analysis of biological variables.
• Probit and Logit transformations and their analysis, p values, its importance and role.
• Confidence interval in simple and composite hypothesis testing.