Description

Contents.

• Vector and Matrices
• Linear Transformations and Projections
• Multivariate Normal and Associated Distributions
• Linear Estimations
• Sums of Squares
• Tests of Linear Hypotheses
• Planning of Experiments
• The Completely Randomised Design
• Randomised Block Design
• Latin and Graeco-Latin Square Designs
• Incomplete Block Designs: General Theory
• Balanced Incomplete Block Design
• Partially Balanced Incomplete Block Design
• The General Factorial Experiment
• The 2-Factorial Experiment
• The 3-Factorial Experiment
• Confounding in Factorial Experiments
• Analysis of Covariance

D. D. Joshi obtained the B.A. (Hons.) and M.A. degrees from the University of Delhi, and the Diploma du Statisticien and Docteur es Sciences degrees from the University of Paris. He has taught at the Universities of Delhi, Panjab, Paris, Leicester (U.K.), and Mustansiriyah (Iraq). He has been at the Institute of Social Sciences, Agra University as Professor of Statistics since 1961 and as Director of the Institute since 1971.
After retirement from the institute of Social Sciences, he was Pro-Vice Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University and incharge of their Regional Centres in India for three years.

Professor Joshi`s research interests include demography, information theory, coding theory, reliability theory, linear estimation, and statistical inference. His research papers on these topics have been published in international journals and have received good reviews.

Professor Joshi attended the U.N. World Population Conference in Belgrade in 1965 as an invited contributor, and the International Conference on the Teaching of Statistics in Sheffield in 1982 as a member of the Indian national delegation. He has also visited U.S. Universities under the International Visitor Program of the U.S. Government.