Faculty of Science

Objectives

To provide advanced statistical skills applicable in Natural Resources Management, Environmental Protection and Monitoring.

Contents

Techniques in the development of research problems, objectives hypothesis, rationales and scope; Techniques in proposal writing, Development of output activities and verifiable indicators, Project budgeting, auditing and financial management, donor searching, identification and contact creating; Techniques in networking and partnership creation; Quarterly and annual reporting, Techniques in writing theses, journal articles and books; the peer review process; Basic knowledge in statistics; basic terms and principles in planning; Qualitative survey; Frequency Distribution; Measures of central tendency, dispersion and variability, application of measures in data measurements; Graphical presentation; normal distribution or standard curve; Student’s distribution; Statistical hypothesis and levels of significance; One and two–sample hypothesis experimental design; Multiple comparison; Non-parametric ANOVA; One and two way ANOVA data transformation; Sample linear correction and regression, testing for goodness of fit and associations; Ecological statistics and computer approach to data analysis.