Abstract:
An insight of bio-statistical proficiency in plant husbandry sciences was studied in all agricultural universities of the country. All teachers and students of M.Phil and Ph.D. were considered as population and were contacted through electronic mails among which 820 responded which were considered as sample. Questionnaires were mailed to all the sample respondents via internet. Questionnaire was based on various statistical techniques. Scale developed to measure the extent of possessed and required proficiency consists of 0.00 - 0.20 (very low), 0.21 – 0.40 (low), 0.41 – 0.60 (moderate), 0.61 – 0.80 (high) and 0.81 – 1.00 (very high). Findings showed that majority of the respondents (51%) were strongly agreed with course of bio-statistics in agriculture, 56% of the respondents considered the Bio-statistics as an important course in plant husbandry sciences. About 84% of the respondents` opinion was that counselling must be taken at data analysis and interpretation stage. The existing statistical proficiency observed was 0.46 ±0.17 which is referred as moderate on Likert scale while expected level observed was 0.76 ± 0.17 which referred as high on Likert scale so it is evident that there is a gap which must be fulfilled for systematic, authentic and adequate analysis of research data. The most commonly known statistical techniques observed were: one way analysis of variance (ANOVA) (298), two-way ANOVA (226), chi-square test (243), F-test (376), T-test (214), Duncan Multiple range Test (318) and LSD test (321). The respondents were mostly using MSTAT (568), Statistix 8.1 (467), MS Excel (431) whereas SPSS by 391 for analysis of research data. It is recommended that there should be compulsory practical Bio-statistical courses at undergraduate, M.Sc. and PhD levels especially designed to learn statistical techniques and accurate use of advanced statistical terminologies through SPSS, Mini-tab, Statistix 8.1 and other Softwares with real base examples of field data, as well as statistical trainings must be arranged for faculty members.
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14-19
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DOI not available
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Journal: International Journal of Agriculture and Applied Sciences, Volume: 7, Issue: 1, Year: 2015