Elementary Statistical Methods :
A) Measures of Central tendency – Arithmetic Mean, Geometric Mean, Harmonic Mean, Median, Mode, Quartiles, Deciles, Percentiles.
B) Measures of Dispersion – Absolute and Relative measures Variance, Standard Deviation and Coefficient of variation. Range, Quartile Deviation,
C) Concepts of skewness and Kurtosis.
D) Correlation and Regression.

Probability:
A) Concept of probability, Elementary laws of probability, Conditional probability, Bayes Theorem, Theory of Expectations.
B) Theoretical Probability Distributions- Binomial, Poission and Normal.

Theory of Statistical Inference:
A) Theory of Estimation – Point Estimation and Interval Estimation – Concept of an Estimator, Desirable properties of an estimator, Methods of Estimation- Ordinary Least square method, Maximum Likelihood Method, Statement of Gauss Markov Theorem.
B) Hypothesis Testing: Simple and composite Hypothesis, Technique of testing of Hypothesis, Small and Large sample tests -1, Normal, Z and F tests contingency Tables

Interpretation of Linear Models:
Models with one and more explanatory variables. Significance of regression coefficients, Goodness of fit (R2)

Simple Random Sampling, Stratified Random Sampling, Systematic Sampling, Cluster Sampling, Multistage Sampling, use of auxiliary information

A) Index Numbers – Types of Index Numbers – Price, Quantity and Cost of living. Methods of construction of Index Numbers.
B) Time Series Analysis – Components of a time series : Trend, Seasonal variation, Cyclical variation, random variation Fitting of trend – Moving Average method, Least square method.

Statistical Organizations in India:
Central Statistical Organization, National Sample Survey Organization, State Directorate of Economics and Statistics, The Reserve Bank of India, Registrar General of India, Types of data collected by them. i.e. Population Census, Economics Census, Agricultural Census, Forest Statistics, Livestock Census, Industrial Statistics, Trade Statistics, Labour Statistics

Methods of National Income estimation concepts: Gross Domestic Product, Net Domestic Product, Gross National Product and Net National Product

Different Birth Rates and death rates, Gross and Net reproduction rates, Infant Mortality rate. Life tables.