Department of Food Production

SEMESTER: 1

COURSE TITLE: RESEARCH AND STATISTICAL SKILLS FOR FOOD AND AGRICULTURE 

NUMBER OF CREDITS: 4

PREREQUISITE: NONE

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course involves the use of research tools and appropriate statistical packages for data processing and presentation. It is anticipated that those enrolled in the course would be able to read and critique research papers in published journals particularly for the living sciences, microbiology, food science, animal/livestock science, crop sciences, human and veterinary medicine. The topics covered are types of research methods, planning research projects, writing reports and research papers and statistical methods and applications by descriptive analysis, estimation techniques, correlation, multiple regression, analysis of variance, non-parametric statistics, multivariate analysis and principal component analysis.

Assessment:

Coursework 60%

Final examination 40%