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2 Data Collection and Sampling Design Research 6&4
Sources of Data: Primary Data, Secondary methodology
Data; Procedure Questionnaire- Survey and methods and
Experiments Design of Survey and techniques
Experiments - Sampling Merits and
Demerits - Control Observations -
Procedures - Sampling Errors.

3 Statistical Modeling and Analysis, Time

Series Analysis
Probability Distributions, Fundamentals of
Statistical Analysis and Inference,
Multivariate methods, Concepts of
Correlation and Regression, Fundamentals
of Time Series Analysis and Spectral
Analysis, Error Analysis, Applications of
Spectral Analysis.

4 Evolutionary Algorithms
Introduction to evolutionary algorithms -
Fundamentals of Genetic algorithms,
Simulated Annealing, Neural Network based
optimization, Optimization of fuzzy systems.

5 Research Reports 14
Structure and Components of Research
Report, Types of Report, Layout of Research
Report, Mechanism of writing a research
report