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Download GAU (Gujarat Ayurved University Jamnagar) BAMS (Bachelor of Ayurvedic medicine and Surgery) 4th Year Research Methodology Question Bank Question Bank (Important Questions)

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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












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SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












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SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

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1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
5 marks Questions


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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












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SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

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1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
5 marks Questions


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18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












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SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

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1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
5 marks Questions


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18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
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41. What is hypothesis? What are Characteristics of hypothesis?
42. How the hypothesis is tested?
43. What is importance of hypothesis?
44. What do you mean by aims and objectives?
45. What are the characteristics of aims and objectives?
46. What are points to consider while writing aims and objectives?
47. What are the importance of aims and objectives?
48. What do you mean by material and method in a research?
49. What are steps to write materials and methods?
50. What are importance of materials and methods?
51. What is observation of research?
52. What are features of research?
53. What is result of research?
54. What are features of result?
55. How is an effective result written?
56. What are an effects in result of observation?
57. How is an effective observation written?
58. What do you mean by communication of research? What are method of
communication of research?
59. What are the role of the Pramanas as research tools?
60. Write about the role of various Pramanas as research tool.
61. What is concept of ethics in research?
62. What is importance of ethics in research?
63. What do you mean by IEC and explain it?
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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












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SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

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1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
5 marks Questions


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18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
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41. What is hypothesis? What are Characteristics of hypothesis?
42. How the hypothesis is tested?
43. What is importance of hypothesis?
44. What do you mean by aims and objectives?
45. What are the characteristics of aims and objectives?
46. What are points to consider while writing aims and objectives?
47. What are the importance of aims and objectives?
48. What do you mean by material and method in a research?
49. What are steps to write materials and methods?
50. What are importance of materials and methods?
51. What is observation of research?
52. What are features of research?
53. What is result of research?
54. What are features of result?
55. How is an effective result written?
56. What are an effects in result of observation?
57. How is an effective observation written?
58. What do you mean by communication of research? What are method of
communication of research?
59. What are the role of the Pramanas as research tools?
60. Write about the role of various Pramanas as research tool.
61. What is concept of ethics in research?
62. What is importance of ethics in research?
63. What do you mean by IEC and explain it?
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64. What is concept of evidence based medicine?
65. What are steps of EBM?
66. What are advantages and disadvantages of EBM?
67. What do you mean by scientific writing?
68. Write down the purpose of scientific writing?
69. Write down the basic structure of scientific writing?
70. Explain AIMRD.
71. What are importance of Information technology in data mining?
72. What do you mean by research data portal concerned with Ayurveda and
contemporary medicine?
73. What are steps to search data using such portals?
74. Explain DHARA.
75. Explain Pubmed.
76. Explain AYUSH research Portal
77. Explain Bioinformatics center.
78. Explain research management informatics system.








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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












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SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

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1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
5 marks Questions


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18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
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41. What is hypothesis? What are Characteristics of hypothesis?
42. How the hypothesis is tested?
43. What is importance of hypothesis?
44. What do you mean by aims and objectives?
45. What are the characteristics of aims and objectives?
46. What are points to consider while writing aims and objectives?
47. What are the importance of aims and objectives?
48. What do you mean by material and method in a research?
49. What are steps to write materials and methods?
50. What are importance of materials and methods?
51. What is observation of research?
52. What are features of research?
53. What is result of research?
54. What are features of result?
55. How is an effective result written?
56. What are an effects in result of observation?
57. How is an effective observation written?
58. What do you mean by communication of research? What are method of
communication of research?
59. What are the role of the Pramanas as research tools?
60. Write about the role of various Pramanas as research tool.
61. What is concept of ethics in research?
62. What is importance of ethics in research?
63. What do you mean by IEC and explain it?
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64. What is concept of evidence based medicine?
65. What are steps of EBM?
66. What are advantages and disadvantages of EBM?
67. What do you mean by scientific writing?
68. Write down the purpose of scientific writing?
69. Write down the basic structure of scientific writing?
70. Explain AIMRD.
71. What are importance of Information technology in data mining?
72. What do you mean by research data portal concerned with Ayurveda and
contemporary medicine?
73. What are steps to search data using such portals?
74. Explain DHARA.
75. Explain Pubmed.
76. Explain AYUSH research Portal
77. Explain Bioinformatics center.
78. Explain research management informatics system.








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1. What do you mean by Aptopadesha?
2. What do you mean by Pratyaksha Pramana?
3. What do you mean by Anumana Pramana?
4. What do you mean by Yukti Pramana?
5. What do you mean by Anveshana?
6. What do you mean by Gaveshna?
7. What do you mean by Anusandhan?
8. What do you mean by Prayeshana?
9. What do you mean by Shodha?
10. Define Research in Ayurved?
11. What is literary research?
12. What is fundamental research?
13. What is clinical research?
14. What is drug research?
15. What is yoga and astrology in relation to Ayurveda?
16. What is mean by Ecological study design?
17. What is mean by proportional mortality ration study design?
18. What is mean by cross ?sectional study design?
19. What is mean by case ?contral study design?
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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












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SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

Page 3 of 19







1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
5 marks Questions


Page 4 of 19

18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
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41. What is hypothesis? What are Characteristics of hypothesis?
42. How the hypothesis is tested?
43. What is importance of hypothesis?
44. What do you mean by aims and objectives?
45. What are the characteristics of aims and objectives?
46. What are points to consider while writing aims and objectives?
47. What are the importance of aims and objectives?
48. What do you mean by material and method in a research?
49. What are steps to write materials and methods?
50. What are importance of materials and methods?
51. What is observation of research?
52. What are features of research?
53. What is result of research?
54. What are features of result?
55. How is an effective result written?
56. What are an effects in result of observation?
57. How is an effective observation written?
58. What do you mean by communication of research? What are method of
communication of research?
59. What are the role of the Pramanas as research tools?
60. Write about the role of various Pramanas as research tool.
61. What is concept of ethics in research?
62. What is importance of ethics in research?
63. What do you mean by IEC and explain it?
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64. What is concept of evidence based medicine?
65. What are steps of EBM?
66. What are advantages and disadvantages of EBM?
67. What do you mean by scientific writing?
68. Write down the purpose of scientific writing?
69. Write down the basic structure of scientific writing?
70. Explain AIMRD.
71. What are importance of Information technology in data mining?
72. What do you mean by research data portal concerned with Ayurveda and
contemporary medicine?
73. What are steps to search data using such portals?
74. Explain DHARA.
75. Explain Pubmed.
76. Explain AYUSH research Portal
77. Explain Bioinformatics center.
78. Explain research management informatics system.








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1. What do you mean by Aptopadesha?
2. What do you mean by Pratyaksha Pramana?
3. What do you mean by Anumana Pramana?
4. What do you mean by Yukti Pramana?
5. What do you mean by Anveshana?
6. What do you mean by Gaveshna?
7. What do you mean by Anusandhan?
8. What do you mean by Prayeshana?
9. What do you mean by Shodha?
10. Define Research in Ayurved?
11. What is literary research?
12. What is fundamental research?
13. What is clinical research?
14. What is drug research?
15. What is yoga and astrology in relation to Ayurveda?
16. What is mean by Ecological study design?
17. What is mean by proportional mortality ration study design?
18. What is mean by cross ?sectional study design?
19. What is mean by case ?contral study design?
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
2 marks Questions


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20. What is mean by retrospective and prospective cohort study design?
21. What is mean by diagnostic testing and evaluation study designs?
22. What is pre-post study design?
23. What is the meaning of RCT?
24. What is non-randomized trial study design?
25. What is Crossover randomized controlled trial study design?
26. What is the meaning of FINER?
27. What is the meaning of PICOT?
28. What is review of literature?
29. What is hypothesis?
30. What is objectives?
31. What Is materials?
32. What is methods?
33. What is Observations?
34. What is results?
35. What do you mean by communication of research?
36. What is research tools?
37. What is ethics in research?
38. What is the meaning of EBM ?
39. What is the meaning of AIMRD ?
40. What is the meaning of CERTEF?
41. What is the meaning of CRIS?


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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












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SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

Page 3 of 19







1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
5 marks Questions


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18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
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41. What is hypothesis? What are Characteristics of hypothesis?
42. How the hypothesis is tested?
43. What is importance of hypothesis?
44. What do you mean by aims and objectives?
45. What are the characteristics of aims and objectives?
46. What are points to consider while writing aims and objectives?
47. What are the importance of aims and objectives?
48. What do you mean by material and method in a research?
49. What are steps to write materials and methods?
50. What are importance of materials and methods?
51. What is observation of research?
52. What are features of research?
53. What is result of research?
54. What are features of result?
55. How is an effective result written?
56. What are an effects in result of observation?
57. How is an effective observation written?
58. What do you mean by communication of research? What are method of
communication of research?
59. What are the role of the Pramanas as research tools?
60. Write about the role of various Pramanas as research tool.
61. What is concept of ethics in research?
62. What is importance of ethics in research?
63. What do you mean by IEC and explain it?
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64. What is concept of evidence based medicine?
65. What are steps of EBM?
66. What are advantages and disadvantages of EBM?
67. What do you mean by scientific writing?
68. Write down the purpose of scientific writing?
69. Write down the basic structure of scientific writing?
70. Explain AIMRD.
71. What are importance of Information technology in data mining?
72. What do you mean by research data portal concerned with Ayurveda and
contemporary medicine?
73. What are steps to search data using such portals?
74. Explain DHARA.
75. Explain Pubmed.
76. Explain AYUSH research Portal
77. Explain Bioinformatics center.
78. Explain research management informatics system.








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1. What do you mean by Aptopadesha?
2. What do you mean by Pratyaksha Pramana?
3. What do you mean by Anumana Pramana?
4. What do you mean by Yukti Pramana?
5. What do you mean by Anveshana?
6. What do you mean by Gaveshna?
7. What do you mean by Anusandhan?
8. What do you mean by Prayeshana?
9. What do you mean by Shodha?
10. Define Research in Ayurved?
11. What is literary research?
12. What is fundamental research?
13. What is clinical research?
14. What is drug research?
15. What is yoga and astrology in relation to Ayurveda?
16. What is mean by Ecological study design?
17. What is mean by proportional mortality ration study design?
18. What is mean by cross ?sectional study design?
19. What is mean by case ?contral study design?
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
2 marks Questions


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20. What is mean by retrospective and prospective cohort study design?
21. What is mean by diagnostic testing and evaluation study designs?
22. What is pre-post study design?
23. What is the meaning of RCT?
24. What is non-randomized trial study design?
25. What is Crossover randomized controlled trial study design?
26. What is the meaning of FINER?
27. What is the meaning of PICOT?
28. What is review of literature?
29. What is hypothesis?
30. What is objectives?
31. What Is materials?
32. What is methods?
33. What is Observations?
34. What is results?
35. What do you mean by communication of research?
36. What is research tools?
37. What is ethics in research?
38. What is the meaning of EBM ?
39. What is the meaning of AIMRD ?
40. What is the meaning of CERTEF?
41. What is the meaning of CRIS?


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PART ? B
Medical-Statistics (20Marks)
1. Definition, scope and importance of the Medical statistics
2. Common statistical terms and notations
a. Population
b. Sample
c. Data
d. Variable
e. Normal distribution
3. Collection and Presentation of data
a. Tabular
b. Graphical
c. Diagrammatical
4. Measures of location
a. Average
b. Percentile
Measures of Central Tendency
a. Arithmetic mean
b. Median
c. Mode
5. Variability and its measurement
a. Range
b. Standard deviation
c. Standard error
6. Introduction to probability and test of significance
7. Parametric and non parametric tests
8. Introduction to commonly used statistical soft-wares.
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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












Page 2 of 19


SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

Page 3 of 19







1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
5 marks Questions


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18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
Page 5 of 19

41. What is hypothesis? What are Characteristics of hypothesis?
42. How the hypothesis is tested?
43. What is importance of hypothesis?
44. What do you mean by aims and objectives?
45. What are the characteristics of aims and objectives?
46. What are points to consider while writing aims and objectives?
47. What are the importance of aims and objectives?
48. What do you mean by material and method in a research?
49. What are steps to write materials and methods?
50. What are importance of materials and methods?
51. What is observation of research?
52. What are features of research?
53. What is result of research?
54. What are features of result?
55. How is an effective result written?
56. What are an effects in result of observation?
57. How is an effective observation written?
58. What do you mean by communication of research? What are method of
communication of research?
59. What are the role of the Pramanas as research tools?
60. Write about the role of various Pramanas as research tool.
61. What is concept of ethics in research?
62. What is importance of ethics in research?
63. What do you mean by IEC and explain it?
Page 6 of 19

64. What is concept of evidence based medicine?
65. What are steps of EBM?
66. What are advantages and disadvantages of EBM?
67. What do you mean by scientific writing?
68. Write down the purpose of scientific writing?
69. Write down the basic structure of scientific writing?
70. Explain AIMRD.
71. What are importance of Information technology in data mining?
72. What do you mean by research data portal concerned with Ayurveda and
contemporary medicine?
73. What are steps to search data using such portals?
74. Explain DHARA.
75. Explain Pubmed.
76. Explain AYUSH research Portal
77. Explain Bioinformatics center.
78. Explain research management informatics system.








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1. What do you mean by Aptopadesha?
2. What do you mean by Pratyaksha Pramana?
3. What do you mean by Anumana Pramana?
4. What do you mean by Yukti Pramana?
5. What do you mean by Anveshana?
6. What do you mean by Gaveshna?
7. What do you mean by Anusandhan?
8. What do you mean by Prayeshana?
9. What do you mean by Shodha?
10. Define Research in Ayurved?
11. What is literary research?
12. What is fundamental research?
13. What is clinical research?
14. What is drug research?
15. What is yoga and astrology in relation to Ayurveda?
16. What is mean by Ecological study design?
17. What is mean by proportional mortality ration study design?
18. What is mean by cross ?sectional study design?
19. What is mean by case ?contral study design?
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
2 marks Questions


Page 8 of 19

20. What is mean by retrospective and prospective cohort study design?
21. What is mean by diagnostic testing and evaluation study designs?
22. What is pre-post study design?
23. What is the meaning of RCT?
24. What is non-randomized trial study design?
25. What is Crossover randomized controlled trial study design?
26. What is the meaning of FINER?
27. What is the meaning of PICOT?
28. What is review of literature?
29. What is hypothesis?
30. What is objectives?
31. What Is materials?
32. What is methods?
33. What is Observations?
34. What is results?
35. What do you mean by communication of research?
36. What is research tools?
37. What is ethics in research?
38. What is the meaning of EBM ?
39. What is the meaning of AIMRD ?
40. What is the meaning of CERTEF?
41. What is the meaning of CRIS?


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PART ? B
Medical-Statistics (20Marks)
1. Definition, scope and importance of the Medical statistics
2. Common statistical terms and notations
a. Population
b. Sample
c. Data
d. Variable
e. Normal distribution
3. Collection and Presentation of data
a. Tabular
b. Graphical
c. Diagrammatical
4. Measures of location
a. Average
b. Percentile
Measures of Central Tendency
a. Arithmetic mean
b. Median
c. Mode
5. Variability and its measurement
a. Range
b. Standard deviation
c. Standard error
6. Introduction to probability and test of significance
7. Parametric and non parametric tests
8. Introduction to commonly used statistical soft-wares.
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1. What is statistics? What are its characteristics?
2. What is medical statistics? Write the importance of medical statistics?
3. What is medical statistics? What are the scopes of medical statistics?
4. What are the functions of statistics? Write the enumerate limitations of statistics.
5. What are the differences between population and sample?
6. What do you mean by sample? Why do we use sample in statistics research?
7. What do you mean by sample? Write the main object of the sample.
8. What do you mean by data? Write the type of data.
9. What are the sources of data collection?
10. What are the methods of data collection?
11. What do you mean by variables? State its types.
12. State the difference between primary data & secondary data.
13. Explain the methods of collection of primary data.
14. Discuss the advantages & limitations of the method of direct inquiry of collecting
primary data.
15. Discuss the advantages and limitations of the method of indirect inquiry of collecting
primary data.
16. State the source of Secondary data.
17. What do you mean by data presentation? State its importance.
18. What do you mean by data presentations? Explain the types of Table.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part B 20 Marks
5 marks Questions


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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












Page 2 of 19


SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

Page 3 of 19







1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
5 marks Questions


Page 4 of 19

18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
Page 5 of 19

41. What is hypothesis? What are Characteristics of hypothesis?
42. How the hypothesis is tested?
43. What is importance of hypothesis?
44. What do you mean by aims and objectives?
45. What are the characteristics of aims and objectives?
46. What are points to consider while writing aims and objectives?
47. What are the importance of aims and objectives?
48. What do you mean by material and method in a research?
49. What are steps to write materials and methods?
50. What are importance of materials and methods?
51. What is observation of research?
52. What are features of research?
53. What is result of research?
54. What are features of result?
55. How is an effective result written?
56. What are an effects in result of observation?
57. How is an effective observation written?
58. What do you mean by communication of research? What are method of
communication of research?
59. What are the role of the Pramanas as research tools?
60. Write about the role of various Pramanas as research tool.
61. What is concept of ethics in research?
62. What is importance of ethics in research?
63. What do you mean by IEC and explain it?
Page 6 of 19

64. What is concept of evidence based medicine?
65. What are steps of EBM?
66. What are advantages and disadvantages of EBM?
67. What do you mean by scientific writing?
68. Write down the purpose of scientific writing?
69. Write down the basic structure of scientific writing?
70. Explain AIMRD.
71. What are importance of Information technology in data mining?
72. What do you mean by research data portal concerned with Ayurveda and
contemporary medicine?
73. What are steps to search data using such portals?
74. Explain DHARA.
75. Explain Pubmed.
76. Explain AYUSH research Portal
77. Explain Bioinformatics center.
78. Explain research management informatics system.








Page 7 of 19






1. What do you mean by Aptopadesha?
2. What do you mean by Pratyaksha Pramana?
3. What do you mean by Anumana Pramana?
4. What do you mean by Yukti Pramana?
5. What do you mean by Anveshana?
6. What do you mean by Gaveshna?
7. What do you mean by Anusandhan?
8. What do you mean by Prayeshana?
9. What do you mean by Shodha?
10. Define Research in Ayurved?
11. What is literary research?
12. What is fundamental research?
13. What is clinical research?
14. What is drug research?
15. What is yoga and astrology in relation to Ayurveda?
16. What is mean by Ecological study design?
17. What is mean by proportional mortality ration study design?
18. What is mean by cross ?sectional study design?
19. What is mean by case ?contral study design?
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
2 marks Questions


Page 8 of 19

20. What is mean by retrospective and prospective cohort study design?
21. What is mean by diagnostic testing and evaluation study designs?
22. What is pre-post study design?
23. What is the meaning of RCT?
24. What is non-randomized trial study design?
25. What is Crossover randomized controlled trial study design?
26. What is the meaning of FINER?
27. What is the meaning of PICOT?
28. What is review of literature?
29. What is hypothesis?
30. What is objectives?
31. What Is materials?
32. What is methods?
33. What is Observations?
34. What is results?
35. What do you mean by communication of research?
36. What is research tools?
37. What is ethics in research?
38. What is the meaning of EBM ?
39. What is the meaning of AIMRD ?
40. What is the meaning of CERTEF?
41. What is the meaning of CRIS?


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PART ? B
Medical-Statistics (20Marks)
1. Definition, scope and importance of the Medical statistics
2. Common statistical terms and notations
a. Population
b. Sample
c. Data
d. Variable
e. Normal distribution
3. Collection and Presentation of data
a. Tabular
b. Graphical
c. Diagrammatical
4. Measures of location
a. Average
b. Percentile
Measures of Central Tendency
a. Arithmetic mean
b. Median
c. Mode
5. Variability and its measurement
a. Range
b. Standard deviation
c. Standard error
6. Introduction to probability and test of significance
7. Parametric and non parametric tests
8. Introduction to commonly used statistical soft-wares.
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1. What is statistics? What are its characteristics?
2. What is medical statistics? Write the importance of medical statistics?
3. What is medical statistics? What are the scopes of medical statistics?
4. What are the functions of statistics? Write the enumerate limitations of statistics.
5. What are the differences between population and sample?
6. What do you mean by sample? Why do we use sample in statistics research?
7. What do you mean by sample? Write the main object of the sample.
8. What do you mean by data? Write the type of data.
9. What are the sources of data collection?
10. What are the methods of data collection?
11. What do you mean by variables? State its types.
12. State the difference between primary data & secondary data.
13. Explain the methods of collection of primary data.
14. Discuss the advantages & limitations of the method of direct inquiry of collecting
primary data.
15. Discuss the advantages and limitations of the method of indirect inquiry of collecting
primary data.
16. State the source of Secondary data.
17. What do you mean by data presentation? State its importance.
18. What do you mean by data presentations? Explain the types of Table.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part B 20 Marks
5 marks Questions


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19. State the advantages of classification of data.
20. State the uses of a table?
21. Explain the guiding rules for tabulation. What are requisites of good table?
22. Explain the different types of table.
23. What are the importance of diagrams & their limitation?
24. What are the importance of graphical presentation & their limitations?
25. What are the differences between diagrams &graphs?
26. What are general rule for constructing a diagrams?
27. Explain the type of diagrams.
28. Explain: - one dimensional diagrams
29. Explain:-two dimensional diagrams
30. Explain:-three dimensional diagrams
31. Explain:-pictogram
32. Explain:-cartogram
33. Explain:-frequency polygon
34. Explain:-Frequency curve
35. What is line diagram??Discuss with example.
36. What do you mean by bar diagram? What are importants to draw a bar diagram?
37. What do you mean by two ?dimensional diagrams? Explain their types.
38. Write down the steps for construction of pie-diagram.
39. What do you mean by Histogram? Explain Steps of construction.
40. What do you mean by measures of location and measures of dispersion?
41. Explain: - Mean
42. Explain: - Median
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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












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SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

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1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
5 marks Questions


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18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
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41. What is hypothesis? What are Characteristics of hypothesis?
42. How the hypothesis is tested?
43. What is importance of hypothesis?
44. What do you mean by aims and objectives?
45. What are the characteristics of aims and objectives?
46. What are points to consider while writing aims and objectives?
47. What are the importance of aims and objectives?
48. What do you mean by material and method in a research?
49. What are steps to write materials and methods?
50. What are importance of materials and methods?
51. What is observation of research?
52. What are features of research?
53. What is result of research?
54. What are features of result?
55. How is an effective result written?
56. What are an effects in result of observation?
57. How is an effective observation written?
58. What do you mean by communication of research? What are method of
communication of research?
59. What are the role of the Pramanas as research tools?
60. Write about the role of various Pramanas as research tool.
61. What is concept of ethics in research?
62. What is importance of ethics in research?
63. What do you mean by IEC and explain it?
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64. What is concept of evidence based medicine?
65. What are steps of EBM?
66. What are advantages and disadvantages of EBM?
67. What do you mean by scientific writing?
68. Write down the purpose of scientific writing?
69. Write down the basic structure of scientific writing?
70. Explain AIMRD.
71. What are importance of Information technology in data mining?
72. What do you mean by research data portal concerned with Ayurveda and
contemporary medicine?
73. What are steps to search data using such portals?
74. Explain DHARA.
75. Explain Pubmed.
76. Explain AYUSH research Portal
77. Explain Bioinformatics center.
78. Explain research management informatics system.








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1. What do you mean by Aptopadesha?
2. What do you mean by Pratyaksha Pramana?
3. What do you mean by Anumana Pramana?
4. What do you mean by Yukti Pramana?
5. What do you mean by Anveshana?
6. What do you mean by Gaveshna?
7. What do you mean by Anusandhan?
8. What do you mean by Prayeshana?
9. What do you mean by Shodha?
10. Define Research in Ayurved?
11. What is literary research?
12. What is fundamental research?
13. What is clinical research?
14. What is drug research?
15. What is yoga and astrology in relation to Ayurveda?
16. What is mean by Ecological study design?
17. What is mean by proportional mortality ration study design?
18. What is mean by cross ?sectional study design?
19. What is mean by case ?contral study design?
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Part A 30 Marks
2 marks Questions


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20. What is mean by retrospective and prospective cohort study design?
21. What is mean by diagnostic testing and evaluation study designs?
22. What is pre-post study design?
23. What is the meaning of RCT?
24. What is non-randomized trial study design?
25. What is Crossover randomized controlled trial study design?
26. What is the meaning of FINER?
27. What is the meaning of PICOT?
28. What is review of literature?
29. What is hypothesis?
30. What is objectives?
31. What Is materials?
32. What is methods?
33. What is Observations?
34. What is results?
35. What do you mean by communication of research?
36. What is research tools?
37. What is ethics in research?
38. What is the meaning of EBM ?
39. What is the meaning of AIMRD ?
40. What is the meaning of CERTEF?
41. What is the meaning of CRIS?


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PART ? B
Medical-Statistics (20Marks)
1. Definition, scope and importance of the Medical statistics
2. Common statistical terms and notations
a. Population
b. Sample
c. Data
d. Variable
e. Normal distribution
3. Collection and Presentation of data
a. Tabular
b. Graphical
c. Diagrammatical
4. Measures of location
a. Average
b. Percentile
Measures of Central Tendency
a. Arithmetic mean
b. Median
c. Mode
5. Variability and its measurement
a. Range
b. Standard deviation
c. Standard error
6. Introduction to probability and test of significance
7. Parametric and non parametric tests
8. Introduction to commonly used statistical soft-wares.
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1. What is statistics? What are its characteristics?
2. What is medical statistics? Write the importance of medical statistics?
3. What is medical statistics? What are the scopes of medical statistics?
4. What are the functions of statistics? Write the enumerate limitations of statistics.
5. What are the differences between population and sample?
6. What do you mean by sample? Why do we use sample in statistics research?
7. What do you mean by sample? Write the main object of the sample.
8. What do you mean by data? Write the type of data.
9. What are the sources of data collection?
10. What are the methods of data collection?
11. What do you mean by variables? State its types.
12. State the difference between primary data & secondary data.
13. Explain the methods of collection of primary data.
14. Discuss the advantages & limitations of the method of direct inquiry of collecting
primary data.
15. Discuss the advantages and limitations of the method of indirect inquiry of collecting
primary data.
16. State the source of Secondary data.
17. What do you mean by data presentation? State its importance.
18. What do you mean by data presentations? Explain the types of Table.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part B 20 Marks
5 marks Questions


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19. State the advantages of classification of data.
20. State the uses of a table?
21. Explain the guiding rules for tabulation. What are requisites of good table?
22. Explain the different types of table.
23. What are the importance of diagrams & their limitation?
24. What are the importance of graphical presentation & their limitations?
25. What are the differences between diagrams &graphs?
26. What are general rule for constructing a diagrams?
27. Explain the type of diagrams.
28. Explain: - one dimensional diagrams
29. Explain:-two dimensional diagrams
30. Explain:-three dimensional diagrams
31. Explain:-pictogram
32. Explain:-cartogram
33. Explain:-frequency polygon
34. Explain:-Frequency curve
35. What is line diagram??Discuss with example.
36. What do you mean by bar diagram? What are importants to draw a bar diagram?
37. What do you mean by two ?dimensional diagrams? Explain their types.
38. Write down the steps for construction of pie-diagram.
39. What do you mean by Histogram? Explain Steps of construction.
40. What do you mean by measures of location and measures of dispersion?
41. Explain: - Mean
42. Explain: - Median
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43. Explain:-Mode
44. Explain:-Geometric mean
45. Explain:-Harmonic mean
46. Explain:-percentile
47. State the characteristics of an ideal measure of central tendency
48. Define the mean and state its merits and demerits.
49. Define the median and state its merits and demerits.
50. Define the mode and state its merits and demerits.
51. Define the geometric mean and state its merits and demerits.
52. Define the percentile and state its merits and demerits.
53. What do you mean by measures of dispersion? Explain its characteristics.
54. What do you mean by range? Explain its merits and demerits
55. What do you mean by interquartile range? Explain its merits and demerits.
56. What do you mean by standard deviation? Explain its merits and demerits.
57. What do you mean by standard error of a statistics? Explain its uses.
58. Explain the concept of probability
a) Mathematical [priori approach]
b) Relative frequency [empirical approach]
{Statistical definition}
59. Explain axiomatic probability.
60. Explain conditional probability.
61. Explain addition theory of probability.
62. Explain multiplication theory of probability.
63. Explain Bayes? theorem of probability.
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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












Page 2 of 19


SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

Page 3 of 19







1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
5 marks Questions


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18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
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41. What is hypothesis? What are Characteristics of hypothesis?
42. How the hypothesis is tested?
43. What is importance of hypothesis?
44. What do you mean by aims and objectives?
45. What are the characteristics of aims and objectives?
46. What are points to consider while writing aims and objectives?
47. What are the importance of aims and objectives?
48. What do you mean by material and method in a research?
49. What are steps to write materials and methods?
50. What are importance of materials and methods?
51. What is observation of research?
52. What are features of research?
53. What is result of research?
54. What are features of result?
55. How is an effective result written?
56. What are an effects in result of observation?
57. How is an effective observation written?
58. What do you mean by communication of research? What are method of
communication of research?
59. What are the role of the Pramanas as research tools?
60. Write about the role of various Pramanas as research tool.
61. What is concept of ethics in research?
62. What is importance of ethics in research?
63. What do you mean by IEC and explain it?
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64. What is concept of evidence based medicine?
65. What are steps of EBM?
66. What are advantages and disadvantages of EBM?
67. What do you mean by scientific writing?
68. Write down the purpose of scientific writing?
69. Write down the basic structure of scientific writing?
70. Explain AIMRD.
71. What are importance of Information technology in data mining?
72. What do you mean by research data portal concerned with Ayurveda and
contemporary medicine?
73. What are steps to search data using such portals?
74. Explain DHARA.
75. Explain Pubmed.
76. Explain AYUSH research Portal
77. Explain Bioinformatics center.
78. Explain research management informatics system.








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1. What do you mean by Aptopadesha?
2. What do you mean by Pratyaksha Pramana?
3. What do you mean by Anumana Pramana?
4. What do you mean by Yukti Pramana?
5. What do you mean by Anveshana?
6. What do you mean by Gaveshna?
7. What do you mean by Anusandhan?
8. What do you mean by Prayeshana?
9. What do you mean by Shodha?
10. Define Research in Ayurved?
11. What is literary research?
12. What is fundamental research?
13. What is clinical research?
14. What is drug research?
15. What is yoga and astrology in relation to Ayurveda?
16. What is mean by Ecological study design?
17. What is mean by proportional mortality ration study design?
18. What is mean by cross ?sectional study design?
19. What is mean by case ?contral study design?
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
2 marks Questions


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20. What is mean by retrospective and prospective cohort study design?
21. What is mean by diagnostic testing and evaluation study designs?
22. What is pre-post study design?
23. What is the meaning of RCT?
24. What is non-randomized trial study design?
25. What is Crossover randomized controlled trial study design?
26. What is the meaning of FINER?
27. What is the meaning of PICOT?
28. What is review of literature?
29. What is hypothesis?
30. What is objectives?
31. What Is materials?
32. What is methods?
33. What is Observations?
34. What is results?
35. What do you mean by communication of research?
36. What is research tools?
37. What is ethics in research?
38. What is the meaning of EBM ?
39. What is the meaning of AIMRD ?
40. What is the meaning of CERTEF?
41. What is the meaning of CRIS?


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PART ? B
Medical-Statistics (20Marks)
1. Definition, scope and importance of the Medical statistics
2. Common statistical terms and notations
a. Population
b. Sample
c. Data
d. Variable
e. Normal distribution
3. Collection and Presentation of data
a. Tabular
b. Graphical
c. Diagrammatical
4. Measures of location
a. Average
b. Percentile
Measures of Central Tendency
a. Arithmetic mean
b. Median
c. Mode
5. Variability and its measurement
a. Range
b. Standard deviation
c. Standard error
6. Introduction to probability and test of significance
7. Parametric and non parametric tests
8. Introduction to commonly used statistical soft-wares.
Page 10 of 19






1. What is statistics? What are its characteristics?
2. What is medical statistics? Write the importance of medical statistics?
3. What is medical statistics? What are the scopes of medical statistics?
4. What are the functions of statistics? Write the enumerate limitations of statistics.
5. What are the differences between population and sample?
6. What do you mean by sample? Why do we use sample in statistics research?
7. What do you mean by sample? Write the main object of the sample.
8. What do you mean by data? Write the type of data.
9. What are the sources of data collection?
10. What are the methods of data collection?
11. What do you mean by variables? State its types.
12. State the difference between primary data & secondary data.
13. Explain the methods of collection of primary data.
14. Discuss the advantages & limitations of the method of direct inquiry of collecting
primary data.
15. Discuss the advantages and limitations of the method of indirect inquiry of collecting
primary data.
16. State the source of Secondary data.
17. What do you mean by data presentation? State its importance.
18. What do you mean by data presentations? Explain the types of Table.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part B 20 Marks
5 marks Questions


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19. State the advantages of classification of data.
20. State the uses of a table?
21. Explain the guiding rules for tabulation. What are requisites of good table?
22. Explain the different types of table.
23. What are the importance of diagrams & their limitation?
24. What are the importance of graphical presentation & their limitations?
25. What are the differences between diagrams &graphs?
26. What are general rule for constructing a diagrams?
27. Explain the type of diagrams.
28. Explain: - one dimensional diagrams
29. Explain:-two dimensional diagrams
30. Explain:-three dimensional diagrams
31. Explain:-pictogram
32. Explain:-cartogram
33. Explain:-frequency polygon
34. Explain:-Frequency curve
35. What is line diagram??Discuss with example.
36. What do you mean by bar diagram? What are importants to draw a bar diagram?
37. What do you mean by two ?dimensional diagrams? Explain their types.
38. Write down the steps for construction of pie-diagram.
39. What do you mean by Histogram? Explain Steps of construction.
40. What do you mean by measures of location and measures of dispersion?
41. Explain: - Mean
42. Explain: - Median
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43. Explain:-Mode
44. Explain:-Geometric mean
45. Explain:-Harmonic mean
46. Explain:-percentile
47. State the characteristics of an ideal measure of central tendency
48. Define the mean and state its merits and demerits.
49. Define the median and state its merits and demerits.
50. Define the mode and state its merits and demerits.
51. Define the geometric mean and state its merits and demerits.
52. Define the percentile and state its merits and demerits.
53. What do you mean by measures of dispersion? Explain its characteristics.
54. What do you mean by range? Explain its merits and demerits
55. What do you mean by interquartile range? Explain its merits and demerits.
56. What do you mean by standard deviation? Explain its merits and demerits.
57. What do you mean by standard error of a statistics? Explain its uses.
58. Explain the concept of probability
a) Mathematical [priori approach]
b) Relative frequency [empirical approach]
{Statistical definition}
59. Explain axiomatic probability.
60. Explain conditional probability.
61. Explain addition theory of probability.
62. Explain multiplication theory of probability.
63. Explain Bayes? theorem of probability.
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64. What is normal distribution? Explain rough sketch, density, function & important
properties.
65. What do you mean by significance levels?
66. What is hypothesis and describe its types.
67. What is test of a statistical hypothesis? Explain Errors.
68. What is Type ?I error? What is Type ?II error? How can be the risk of both of types of
errors minimized?
69. What do you mean by parametric and non-parametric tests? Explain it.
70. What are the differences between parametric and non-parametric tests.
71. What are corresponding non parametric test relevant to parametric test.
72. Explain: - Karl person?s coefficient correlation
73. Explain: - Wilcoxon rank ?sum test
74. Explain: - Kruskal ?Wallis test
75. Explain: - Wilcocon signed rank test
76. Explain: - Spearman?s rank correlation coefficient
77. Explain: - Mc.Nemar?s test
78. Explain: - Chi-square test
79. Explain: - T- test
80. Explain: - Z ? test
81. Explain: - F ? test
82. Define student?s T statistics and density function.
83. What are types of T ? tests? Explain it.
84. What are types of Z- tests? Explain it.
85. What are types of F-tests? Explain it.
86. What is ANOVA? Explain it.
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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












Page 2 of 19


SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

Page 3 of 19







1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
5 marks Questions


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18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
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41. What is hypothesis? What are Characteristics of hypothesis?
42. How the hypothesis is tested?
43. What is importance of hypothesis?
44. What do you mean by aims and objectives?
45. What are the characteristics of aims and objectives?
46. What are points to consider while writing aims and objectives?
47. What are the importance of aims and objectives?
48. What do you mean by material and method in a research?
49. What are steps to write materials and methods?
50. What are importance of materials and methods?
51. What is observation of research?
52. What are features of research?
53. What is result of research?
54. What are features of result?
55. How is an effective result written?
56. What are an effects in result of observation?
57. How is an effective observation written?
58. What do you mean by communication of research? What are method of
communication of research?
59. What are the role of the Pramanas as research tools?
60. Write about the role of various Pramanas as research tool.
61. What is concept of ethics in research?
62. What is importance of ethics in research?
63. What do you mean by IEC and explain it?
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64. What is concept of evidence based medicine?
65. What are steps of EBM?
66. What are advantages and disadvantages of EBM?
67. What do you mean by scientific writing?
68. Write down the purpose of scientific writing?
69. Write down the basic structure of scientific writing?
70. Explain AIMRD.
71. What are importance of Information technology in data mining?
72. What do you mean by research data portal concerned with Ayurveda and
contemporary medicine?
73. What are steps to search data using such portals?
74. Explain DHARA.
75. Explain Pubmed.
76. Explain AYUSH research Portal
77. Explain Bioinformatics center.
78. Explain research management informatics system.








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1. What do you mean by Aptopadesha?
2. What do you mean by Pratyaksha Pramana?
3. What do you mean by Anumana Pramana?
4. What do you mean by Yukti Pramana?
5. What do you mean by Anveshana?
6. What do you mean by Gaveshna?
7. What do you mean by Anusandhan?
8. What do you mean by Prayeshana?
9. What do you mean by Shodha?
10. Define Research in Ayurved?
11. What is literary research?
12. What is fundamental research?
13. What is clinical research?
14. What is drug research?
15. What is yoga and astrology in relation to Ayurveda?
16. What is mean by Ecological study design?
17. What is mean by proportional mortality ration study design?
18. What is mean by cross ?sectional study design?
19. What is mean by case ?contral study design?
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
2 marks Questions


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20. What is mean by retrospective and prospective cohort study design?
21. What is mean by diagnostic testing and evaluation study designs?
22. What is pre-post study design?
23. What is the meaning of RCT?
24. What is non-randomized trial study design?
25. What is Crossover randomized controlled trial study design?
26. What is the meaning of FINER?
27. What is the meaning of PICOT?
28. What is review of literature?
29. What is hypothesis?
30. What is objectives?
31. What Is materials?
32. What is methods?
33. What is Observations?
34. What is results?
35. What do you mean by communication of research?
36. What is research tools?
37. What is ethics in research?
38. What is the meaning of EBM ?
39. What is the meaning of AIMRD ?
40. What is the meaning of CERTEF?
41. What is the meaning of CRIS?


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PART ? B
Medical-Statistics (20Marks)
1. Definition, scope and importance of the Medical statistics
2. Common statistical terms and notations
a. Population
b. Sample
c. Data
d. Variable
e. Normal distribution
3. Collection and Presentation of data
a. Tabular
b. Graphical
c. Diagrammatical
4. Measures of location
a. Average
b. Percentile
Measures of Central Tendency
a. Arithmetic mean
b. Median
c. Mode
5. Variability and its measurement
a. Range
b. Standard deviation
c. Standard error
6. Introduction to probability and test of significance
7. Parametric and non parametric tests
8. Introduction to commonly used statistical soft-wares.
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1. What is statistics? What are its characteristics?
2. What is medical statistics? Write the importance of medical statistics?
3. What is medical statistics? What are the scopes of medical statistics?
4. What are the functions of statistics? Write the enumerate limitations of statistics.
5. What are the differences between population and sample?
6. What do you mean by sample? Why do we use sample in statistics research?
7. What do you mean by sample? Write the main object of the sample.
8. What do you mean by data? Write the type of data.
9. What are the sources of data collection?
10. What are the methods of data collection?
11. What do you mean by variables? State its types.
12. State the difference between primary data & secondary data.
13. Explain the methods of collection of primary data.
14. Discuss the advantages & limitations of the method of direct inquiry of collecting
primary data.
15. Discuss the advantages and limitations of the method of indirect inquiry of collecting
primary data.
16. State the source of Secondary data.
17. What do you mean by data presentation? State its importance.
18. What do you mean by data presentations? Explain the types of Table.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part B 20 Marks
5 marks Questions


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19. State the advantages of classification of data.
20. State the uses of a table?
21. Explain the guiding rules for tabulation. What are requisites of good table?
22. Explain the different types of table.
23. What are the importance of diagrams & their limitation?
24. What are the importance of graphical presentation & their limitations?
25. What are the differences between diagrams &graphs?
26. What are general rule for constructing a diagrams?
27. Explain the type of diagrams.
28. Explain: - one dimensional diagrams
29. Explain:-two dimensional diagrams
30. Explain:-three dimensional diagrams
31. Explain:-pictogram
32. Explain:-cartogram
33. Explain:-frequency polygon
34. Explain:-Frequency curve
35. What is line diagram??Discuss with example.
36. What do you mean by bar diagram? What are importants to draw a bar diagram?
37. What do you mean by two ?dimensional diagrams? Explain their types.
38. Write down the steps for construction of pie-diagram.
39. What do you mean by Histogram? Explain Steps of construction.
40. What do you mean by measures of location and measures of dispersion?
41. Explain: - Mean
42. Explain: - Median
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43. Explain:-Mode
44. Explain:-Geometric mean
45. Explain:-Harmonic mean
46. Explain:-percentile
47. State the characteristics of an ideal measure of central tendency
48. Define the mean and state its merits and demerits.
49. Define the median and state its merits and demerits.
50. Define the mode and state its merits and demerits.
51. Define the geometric mean and state its merits and demerits.
52. Define the percentile and state its merits and demerits.
53. What do you mean by measures of dispersion? Explain its characteristics.
54. What do you mean by range? Explain its merits and demerits
55. What do you mean by interquartile range? Explain its merits and demerits.
56. What do you mean by standard deviation? Explain its merits and demerits.
57. What do you mean by standard error of a statistics? Explain its uses.
58. Explain the concept of probability
a) Mathematical [priori approach]
b) Relative frequency [empirical approach]
{Statistical definition}
59. Explain axiomatic probability.
60. Explain conditional probability.
61. Explain addition theory of probability.
62. Explain multiplication theory of probability.
63. Explain Bayes? theorem of probability.
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64. What is normal distribution? Explain rough sketch, density, function & important
properties.
65. What do you mean by significance levels?
66. What is hypothesis and describe its types.
67. What is test of a statistical hypothesis? Explain Errors.
68. What is Type ?I error? What is Type ?II error? How can be the risk of both of types of
errors minimized?
69. What do you mean by parametric and non-parametric tests? Explain it.
70. What are the differences between parametric and non-parametric tests.
71. What are corresponding non parametric test relevant to parametric test.
72. Explain: - Karl person?s coefficient correlation
73. Explain: - Wilcoxon rank ?sum test
74. Explain: - Kruskal ?Wallis test
75. Explain: - Wilcocon signed rank test
76. Explain: - Spearman?s rank correlation coefficient
77. Explain: - Mc.Nemar?s test
78. Explain: - Chi-square test
79. Explain: - T- test
80. Explain: - Z ? test
81. Explain: - F ? test
82. Define student?s T statistics and density function.
83. What are types of T ? tests? Explain it.
84. What are types of Z- tests? Explain it.
85. What are types of F-tests? Explain it.
86. What is ANOVA? Explain it.
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87. What do you mean by statistical software? What are importance of statistical
software?

Marks 5 / question (calculation)
88. The following data show the number of daily patients. Find the mean of numbers of
patients.
7, 13,4,3,8,6,9,6
89. Find the mean incubation period of 9 polio cases given below.
23, 22, 20,24,16,17,18,19,20

90. Heights in centimeters for school children are given below
Heights 148 143 160 152 157 150 155
No of
children
2 2 2 2 2 2 2

91. The mean weight of a group of 20 persons was found to be 55kg. Later it was
discovered that the one of them reported his weight as 45kg which was actually
54kg. Find the correct mean of their weights.

92. The following table shows the number of children per family in a certain area. Find
the mean number of children for family.
No of
children
0 1 2 3 4 5
No of families 4 8 23 8 6 3

93. The height of 7 boys aged 14 years is given in cm with fraction in the series below.
Find median
145.8, 152.1, 153.6, 146.9, 148.8,150,157
94. The following table shows the record of absent students of class during a month.
Find the median of absent days students.
No of absent days 0 1 2 3 4 5
No of student 8 12 18 9 5 1
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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












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SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

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1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
5 marks Questions


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18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
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41. What is hypothesis? What are Characteristics of hypothesis?
42. How the hypothesis is tested?
43. What is importance of hypothesis?
44. What do you mean by aims and objectives?
45. What are the characteristics of aims and objectives?
46. What are points to consider while writing aims and objectives?
47. What are the importance of aims and objectives?
48. What do you mean by material and method in a research?
49. What are steps to write materials and methods?
50. What are importance of materials and methods?
51. What is observation of research?
52. What are features of research?
53. What is result of research?
54. What are features of result?
55. How is an effective result written?
56. What are an effects in result of observation?
57. How is an effective observation written?
58. What do you mean by communication of research? What are method of
communication of research?
59. What are the role of the Pramanas as research tools?
60. Write about the role of various Pramanas as research tool.
61. What is concept of ethics in research?
62. What is importance of ethics in research?
63. What do you mean by IEC and explain it?
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64. What is concept of evidence based medicine?
65. What are steps of EBM?
66. What are advantages and disadvantages of EBM?
67. What do you mean by scientific writing?
68. Write down the purpose of scientific writing?
69. Write down the basic structure of scientific writing?
70. Explain AIMRD.
71. What are importance of Information technology in data mining?
72. What do you mean by research data portal concerned with Ayurveda and
contemporary medicine?
73. What are steps to search data using such portals?
74. Explain DHARA.
75. Explain Pubmed.
76. Explain AYUSH research Portal
77. Explain Bioinformatics center.
78. Explain research management informatics system.








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1. What do you mean by Aptopadesha?
2. What do you mean by Pratyaksha Pramana?
3. What do you mean by Anumana Pramana?
4. What do you mean by Yukti Pramana?
5. What do you mean by Anveshana?
6. What do you mean by Gaveshna?
7. What do you mean by Anusandhan?
8. What do you mean by Prayeshana?
9. What do you mean by Shodha?
10. Define Research in Ayurved?
11. What is literary research?
12. What is fundamental research?
13. What is clinical research?
14. What is drug research?
15. What is yoga and astrology in relation to Ayurveda?
16. What is mean by Ecological study design?
17. What is mean by proportional mortality ration study design?
18. What is mean by cross ?sectional study design?
19. What is mean by case ?contral study design?
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
2 marks Questions


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20. What is mean by retrospective and prospective cohort study design?
21. What is mean by diagnostic testing and evaluation study designs?
22. What is pre-post study design?
23. What is the meaning of RCT?
24. What is non-randomized trial study design?
25. What is Crossover randomized controlled trial study design?
26. What is the meaning of FINER?
27. What is the meaning of PICOT?
28. What is review of literature?
29. What is hypothesis?
30. What is objectives?
31. What Is materials?
32. What is methods?
33. What is Observations?
34. What is results?
35. What do you mean by communication of research?
36. What is research tools?
37. What is ethics in research?
38. What is the meaning of EBM ?
39. What is the meaning of AIMRD ?
40. What is the meaning of CERTEF?
41. What is the meaning of CRIS?


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PART ? B
Medical-Statistics (20Marks)
1. Definition, scope and importance of the Medical statistics
2. Common statistical terms and notations
a. Population
b. Sample
c. Data
d. Variable
e. Normal distribution
3. Collection and Presentation of data
a. Tabular
b. Graphical
c. Diagrammatical
4. Measures of location
a. Average
b. Percentile
Measures of Central Tendency
a. Arithmetic mean
b. Median
c. Mode
5. Variability and its measurement
a. Range
b. Standard deviation
c. Standard error
6. Introduction to probability and test of significance
7. Parametric and non parametric tests
8. Introduction to commonly used statistical soft-wares.
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1. What is statistics? What are its characteristics?
2. What is medical statistics? Write the importance of medical statistics?
3. What is medical statistics? What are the scopes of medical statistics?
4. What are the functions of statistics? Write the enumerate limitations of statistics.
5. What are the differences between population and sample?
6. What do you mean by sample? Why do we use sample in statistics research?
7. What do you mean by sample? Write the main object of the sample.
8. What do you mean by data? Write the type of data.
9. What are the sources of data collection?
10. What are the methods of data collection?
11. What do you mean by variables? State its types.
12. State the difference between primary data & secondary data.
13. Explain the methods of collection of primary data.
14. Discuss the advantages & limitations of the method of direct inquiry of collecting
primary data.
15. Discuss the advantages and limitations of the method of indirect inquiry of collecting
primary data.
16. State the source of Secondary data.
17. What do you mean by data presentation? State its importance.
18. What do you mean by data presentations? Explain the types of Table.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part B 20 Marks
5 marks Questions


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19. State the advantages of classification of data.
20. State the uses of a table?
21. Explain the guiding rules for tabulation. What are requisites of good table?
22. Explain the different types of table.
23. What are the importance of diagrams & their limitation?
24. What are the importance of graphical presentation & their limitations?
25. What are the differences between diagrams &graphs?
26. What are general rule for constructing a diagrams?
27. Explain the type of diagrams.
28. Explain: - one dimensional diagrams
29. Explain:-two dimensional diagrams
30. Explain:-three dimensional diagrams
31. Explain:-pictogram
32. Explain:-cartogram
33. Explain:-frequency polygon
34. Explain:-Frequency curve
35. What is line diagram??Discuss with example.
36. What do you mean by bar diagram? What are importants to draw a bar diagram?
37. What do you mean by two ?dimensional diagrams? Explain their types.
38. Write down the steps for construction of pie-diagram.
39. What do you mean by Histogram? Explain Steps of construction.
40. What do you mean by measures of location and measures of dispersion?
41. Explain: - Mean
42. Explain: - Median
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43. Explain:-Mode
44. Explain:-Geometric mean
45. Explain:-Harmonic mean
46. Explain:-percentile
47. State the characteristics of an ideal measure of central tendency
48. Define the mean and state its merits and demerits.
49. Define the median and state its merits and demerits.
50. Define the mode and state its merits and demerits.
51. Define the geometric mean and state its merits and demerits.
52. Define the percentile and state its merits and demerits.
53. What do you mean by measures of dispersion? Explain its characteristics.
54. What do you mean by range? Explain its merits and demerits
55. What do you mean by interquartile range? Explain its merits and demerits.
56. What do you mean by standard deviation? Explain its merits and demerits.
57. What do you mean by standard error of a statistics? Explain its uses.
58. Explain the concept of probability
a) Mathematical [priori approach]
b) Relative frequency [empirical approach]
{Statistical definition}
59. Explain axiomatic probability.
60. Explain conditional probability.
61. Explain addition theory of probability.
62. Explain multiplication theory of probability.
63. Explain Bayes? theorem of probability.
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64. What is normal distribution? Explain rough sketch, density, function & important
properties.
65. What do you mean by significance levels?
66. What is hypothesis and describe its types.
67. What is test of a statistical hypothesis? Explain Errors.
68. What is Type ?I error? What is Type ?II error? How can be the risk of both of types of
errors minimized?
69. What do you mean by parametric and non-parametric tests? Explain it.
70. What are the differences between parametric and non-parametric tests.
71. What are corresponding non parametric test relevant to parametric test.
72. Explain: - Karl person?s coefficient correlation
73. Explain: - Wilcoxon rank ?sum test
74. Explain: - Kruskal ?Wallis test
75. Explain: - Wilcocon signed rank test
76. Explain: - Spearman?s rank correlation coefficient
77. Explain: - Mc.Nemar?s test
78. Explain: - Chi-square test
79. Explain: - T- test
80. Explain: - Z ? test
81. Explain: - F ? test
82. Define student?s T statistics and density function.
83. What are types of T ? tests? Explain it.
84. What are types of Z- tests? Explain it.
85. What are types of F-tests? Explain it.
86. What is ANOVA? Explain it.
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87. What do you mean by statistical software? What are importance of statistical
software?

Marks 5 / question (calculation)
88. The following data show the number of daily patients. Find the mean of numbers of
patients.
7, 13,4,3,8,6,9,6
89. Find the mean incubation period of 9 polio cases given below.
23, 22, 20,24,16,17,18,19,20

90. Heights in centimeters for school children are given below
Heights 148 143 160 152 157 150 155
No of
children
2 2 2 2 2 2 2

91. The mean weight of a group of 20 persons was found to be 55kg. Later it was
discovered that the one of them reported his weight as 45kg which was actually
54kg. Find the correct mean of their weights.

92. The following table shows the number of children per family in a certain area. Find
the mean number of children for family.
No of
children
0 1 2 3 4 5
No of families 4 8 23 8 6 3

93. The height of 7 boys aged 14 years is given in cm with fraction in the series below.
Find median
145.8, 152.1, 153.6, 146.9, 148.8,150,157
94. The following table shows the record of absent students of class during a month.
Find the median of absent days students.
No of absent days 0 1 2 3 4 5
No of student 8 12 18 9 5 1
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95. The numbers of books purchased by each of the 15 persons from a book store are
as follows. Find the mode.

1,0,2,2,3,4,2,7,2,2,5,4,2,1,2
96. The number of patients arriving at a clinic each hour during working hours of a
day recorded as follows.

3,5,4,2,7,8,13
97. The following data show the heights of girls. Find the range
Heights
(cm)
126 110 91 115 112 80 100 93 97 106

98. From following information of monthly Y expenditure of drog. find the range of
expenditure
Monthly
expenditure
3500 4000 5000 7500 10000 12000
No of person 3 21 30 19 6 5

99. In a survey of 200 boys of which 75 were intelligent and of them 40 had skilled
fathers, while 85 of the unintelligent boys had unskilled fathers . Do these figures are
consists.
100. Birth and death rates of some countries are given below. For comparing them drew
bar diagram.
Country USA INDIA JAPAN GERMANY UK
Birth rate 17.5 33.8 27.5 16.2 15.6
Death rate 10.6 24.3 17.6 11.2 12.1
101. Details of monthly income and expenditure of two families are as follows. Represent
the same in sub divide bar diagram.
Income
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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












Page 2 of 19


SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

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1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
5 marks Questions


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18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
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41. What is hypothesis? What are Characteristics of hypothesis?
42. How the hypothesis is tested?
43. What is importance of hypothesis?
44. What do you mean by aims and objectives?
45. What are the characteristics of aims and objectives?
46. What are points to consider while writing aims and objectives?
47. What are the importance of aims and objectives?
48. What do you mean by material and method in a research?
49. What are steps to write materials and methods?
50. What are importance of materials and methods?
51. What is observation of research?
52. What are features of research?
53. What is result of research?
54. What are features of result?
55. How is an effective result written?
56. What are an effects in result of observation?
57. How is an effective observation written?
58. What do you mean by communication of research? What are method of
communication of research?
59. What are the role of the Pramanas as research tools?
60. Write about the role of various Pramanas as research tool.
61. What is concept of ethics in research?
62. What is importance of ethics in research?
63. What do you mean by IEC and explain it?
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64. What is concept of evidence based medicine?
65. What are steps of EBM?
66. What are advantages and disadvantages of EBM?
67. What do you mean by scientific writing?
68. Write down the purpose of scientific writing?
69. Write down the basic structure of scientific writing?
70. Explain AIMRD.
71. What are importance of Information technology in data mining?
72. What do you mean by research data portal concerned with Ayurveda and
contemporary medicine?
73. What are steps to search data using such portals?
74. Explain DHARA.
75. Explain Pubmed.
76. Explain AYUSH research Portal
77. Explain Bioinformatics center.
78. Explain research management informatics system.








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1. What do you mean by Aptopadesha?
2. What do you mean by Pratyaksha Pramana?
3. What do you mean by Anumana Pramana?
4. What do you mean by Yukti Pramana?
5. What do you mean by Anveshana?
6. What do you mean by Gaveshna?
7. What do you mean by Anusandhan?
8. What do you mean by Prayeshana?
9. What do you mean by Shodha?
10. Define Research in Ayurved?
11. What is literary research?
12. What is fundamental research?
13. What is clinical research?
14. What is drug research?
15. What is yoga and astrology in relation to Ayurveda?
16. What is mean by Ecological study design?
17. What is mean by proportional mortality ration study design?
18. What is mean by cross ?sectional study design?
19. What is mean by case ?contral study design?
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
2 marks Questions


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20. What is mean by retrospective and prospective cohort study design?
21. What is mean by diagnostic testing and evaluation study designs?
22. What is pre-post study design?
23. What is the meaning of RCT?
24. What is non-randomized trial study design?
25. What is Crossover randomized controlled trial study design?
26. What is the meaning of FINER?
27. What is the meaning of PICOT?
28. What is review of literature?
29. What is hypothesis?
30. What is objectives?
31. What Is materials?
32. What is methods?
33. What is Observations?
34. What is results?
35. What do you mean by communication of research?
36. What is research tools?
37. What is ethics in research?
38. What is the meaning of EBM ?
39. What is the meaning of AIMRD ?
40. What is the meaning of CERTEF?
41. What is the meaning of CRIS?


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PART ? B
Medical-Statistics (20Marks)
1. Definition, scope and importance of the Medical statistics
2. Common statistical terms and notations
a. Population
b. Sample
c. Data
d. Variable
e. Normal distribution
3. Collection and Presentation of data
a. Tabular
b. Graphical
c. Diagrammatical
4. Measures of location
a. Average
b. Percentile
Measures of Central Tendency
a. Arithmetic mean
b. Median
c. Mode
5. Variability and its measurement
a. Range
b. Standard deviation
c. Standard error
6. Introduction to probability and test of significance
7. Parametric and non parametric tests
8. Introduction to commonly used statistical soft-wares.
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1. What is statistics? What are its characteristics?
2. What is medical statistics? Write the importance of medical statistics?
3. What is medical statistics? What are the scopes of medical statistics?
4. What are the functions of statistics? Write the enumerate limitations of statistics.
5. What are the differences between population and sample?
6. What do you mean by sample? Why do we use sample in statistics research?
7. What do you mean by sample? Write the main object of the sample.
8. What do you mean by data? Write the type of data.
9. What are the sources of data collection?
10. What are the methods of data collection?
11. What do you mean by variables? State its types.
12. State the difference between primary data & secondary data.
13. Explain the methods of collection of primary data.
14. Discuss the advantages & limitations of the method of direct inquiry of collecting
primary data.
15. Discuss the advantages and limitations of the method of indirect inquiry of collecting
primary data.
16. State the source of Secondary data.
17. What do you mean by data presentation? State its importance.
18. What do you mean by data presentations? Explain the types of Table.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part B 20 Marks
5 marks Questions


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19. State the advantages of classification of data.
20. State the uses of a table?
21. Explain the guiding rules for tabulation. What are requisites of good table?
22. Explain the different types of table.
23. What are the importance of diagrams & their limitation?
24. What are the importance of graphical presentation & their limitations?
25. What are the differences between diagrams &graphs?
26. What are general rule for constructing a diagrams?
27. Explain the type of diagrams.
28. Explain: - one dimensional diagrams
29. Explain:-two dimensional diagrams
30. Explain:-three dimensional diagrams
31. Explain:-pictogram
32. Explain:-cartogram
33. Explain:-frequency polygon
34. Explain:-Frequency curve
35. What is line diagram??Discuss with example.
36. What do you mean by bar diagram? What are importants to draw a bar diagram?
37. What do you mean by two ?dimensional diagrams? Explain their types.
38. Write down the steps for construction of pie-diagram.
39. What do you mean by Histogram? Explain Steps of construction.
40. What do you mean by measures of location and measures of dispersion?
41. Explain: - Mean
42. Explain: - Median
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43. Explain:-Mode
44. Explain:-Geometric mean
45. Explain:-Harmonic mean
46. Explain:-percentile
47. State the characteristics of an ideal measure of central tendency
48. Define the mean and state its merits and demerits.
49. Define the median and state its merits and demerits.
50. Define the mode and state its merits and demerits.
51. Define the geometric mean and state its merits and demerits.
52. Define the percentile and state its merits and demerits.
53. What do you mean by measures of dispersion? Explain its characteristics.
54. What do you mean by range? Explain its merits and demerits
55. What do you mean by interquartile range? Explain its merits and demerits.
56. What do you mean by standard deviation? Explain its merits and demerits.
57. What do you mean by standard error of a statistics? Explain its uses.
58. Explain the concept of probability
a) Mathematical [priori approach]
b) Relative frequency [empirical approach]
{Statistical definition}
59. Explain axiomatic probability.
60. Explain conditional probability.
61. Explain addition theory of probability.
62. Explain multiplication theory of probability.
63. Explain Bayes? theorem of probability.
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64. What is normal distribution? Explain rough sketch, density, function & important
properties.
65. What do you mean by significance levels?
66. What is hypothesis and describe its types.
67. What is test of a statistical hypothesis? Explain Errors.
68. What is Type ?I error? What is Type ?II error? How can be the risk of both of types of
errors minimized?
69. What do you mean by parametric and non-parametric tests? Explain it.
70. What are the differences between parametric and non-parametric tests.
71. What are corresponding non parametric test relevant to parametric test.
72. Explain: - Karl person?s coefficient correlation
73. Explain: - Wilcoxon rank ?sum test
74. Explain: - Kruskal ?Wallis test
75. Explain: - Wilcocon signed rank test
76. Explain: - Spearman?s rank correlation coefficient
77. Explain: - Mc.Nemar?s test
78. Explain: - Chi-square test
79. Explain: - T- test
80. Explain: - Z ? test
81. Explain: - F ? test
82. Define student?s T statistics and density function.
83. What are types of T ? tests? Explain it.
84. What are types of Z- tests? Explain it.
85. What are types of F-tests? Explain it.
86. What is ANOVA? Explain it.
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87. What do you mean by statistical software? What are importance of statistical
software?

Marks 5 / question (calculation)
88. The following data show the number of daily patients. Find the mean of numbers of
patients.
7, 13,4,3,8,6,9,6
89. Find the mean incubation period of 9 polio cases given below.
23, 22, 20,24,16,17,18,19,20

90. Heights in centimeters for school children are given below
Heights 148 143 160 152 157 150 155
No of
children
2 2 2 2 2 2 2

91. The mean weight of a group of 20 persons was found to be 55kg. Later it was
discovered that the one of them reported his weight as 45kg which was actually
54kg. Find the correct mean of their weights.

92. The following table shows the number of children per family in a certain area. Find
the mean number of children for family.
No of
children
0 1 2 3 4 5
No of families 4 8 23 8 6 3

93. The height of 7 boys aged 14 years is given in cm with fraction in the series below.
Find median
145.8, 152.1, 153.6, 146.9, 148.8,150,157
94. The following table shows the record of absent students of class during a month.
Find the median of absent days students.
No of absent days 0 1 2 3 4 5
No of student 8 12 18 9 5 1
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95. The numbers of books purchased by each of the 15 persons from a book store are
as follows. Find the mode.

1,0,2,2,3,4,2,7,2,2,5,4,2,1,2
96. The number of patients arriving at a clinic each hour during working hours of a
day recorded as follows.

3,5,4,2,7,8,13
97. The following data show the heights of girls. Find the range
Heights
(cm)
126 110 91 115 112 80 100 93 97 106

98. From following information of monthly Y expenditure of drog. find the range of
expenditure
Monthly
expenditure
3500 4000 5000 7500 10000 12000
No of person 3 21 30 19 6 5

99. In a survey of 200 boys of which 75 were intelligent and of them 40 had skilled
fathers, while 85 of the unintelligent boys had unskilled fathers . Do these figures are
consists.
100. Birth and death rates of some countries are given below. For comparing them drew
bar diagram.
Country USA INDIA JAPAN GERMANY UK
Birth rate 17.5 33.8 27.5 16.2 15.6
Death rate 10.6 24.3 17.6 11.2 12.1
101. Details of monthly income and expenditure of two families are as follows. Represent
the same in sub divide bar diagram.
Income
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Family A Family B
6000 8000

Expenditure
Family A Family B
Food 3000 4000
Clothing 1000 2000
Rent 700 1000
Others 1300 1000

102. Kesari jeevan was given to 7 volunteers to see the effect on weight gain is as
mentioned below. Find the variance of weight
Weight in kg. = 52,58,40,60,54,38,48














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:: Research Methodology & Medical Statistics: (50 Marks)


Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












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SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

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1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
5 marks Questions


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18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
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41. What is hypothesis? What are Characteristics of hypothesis?
42. How the hypothesis is tested?
43. What is importance of hypothesis?
44. What do you mean by aims and objectives?
45. What are the characteristics of aims and objectives?
46. What are points to consider while writing aims and objectives?
47. What are the importance of aims and objectives?
48. What do you mean by material and method in a research?
49. What are steps to write materials and methods?
50. What are importance of materials and methods?
51. What is observation of research?
52. What are features of research?
53. What is result of research?
54. What are features of result?
55. How is an effective result written?
56. What are an effects in result of observation?
57. How is an effective observation written?
58. What do you mean by communication of research? What are method of
communication of research?
59. What are the role of the Pramanas as research tools?
60. Write about the role of various Pramanas as research tool.
61. What is concept of ethics in research?
62. What is importance of ethics in research?
63. What do you mean by IEC and explain it?
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64. What is concept of evidence based medicine?
65. What are steps of EBM?
66. What are advantages and disadvantages of EBM?
67. What do you mean by scientific writing?
68. Write down the purpose of scientific writing?
69. Write down the basic structure of scientific writing?
70. Explain AIMRD.
71. What are importance of Information technology in data mining?
72. What do you mean by research data portal concerned with Ayurveda and
contemporary medicine?
73. What are steps to search data using such portals?
74. Explain DHARA.
75. Explain Pubmed.
76. Explain AYUSH research Portal
77. Explain Bioinformatics center.
78. Explain research management informatics system.








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1. What do you mean by Aptopadesha?
2. What do you mean by Pratyaksha Pramana?
3. What do you mean by Anumana Pramana?
4. What do you mean by Yukti Pramana?
5. What do you mean by Anveshana?
6. What do you mean by Gaveshna?
7. What do you mean by Anusandhan?
8. What do you mean by Prayeshana?
9. What do you mean by Shodha?
10. Define Research in Ayurved?
11. What is literary research?
12. What is fundamental research?
13. What is clinical research?
14. What is drug research?
15. What is yoga and astrology in relation to Ayurveda?
16. What is mean by Ecological study design?
17. What is mean by proportional mortality ration study design?
18. What is mean by cross ?sectional study design?
19. What is mean by case ?contral study design?
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part A 30 Marks
2 marks Questions


Page 8 of 19

20. What is mean by retrospective and prospective cohort study design?
21. What is mean by diagnostic testing and evaluation study designs?
22. What is pre-post study design?
23. What is the meaning of RCT?
24. What is non-randomized trial study design?
25. What is Crossover randomized controlled trial study design?
26. What is the meaning of FINER?
27. What is the meaning of PICOT?
28. What is review of literature?
29. What is hypothesis?
30. What is objectives?
31. What Is materials?
32. What is methods?
33. What is Observations?
34. What is results?
35. What do you mean by communication of research?
36. What is research tools?
37. What is ethics in research?
38. What is the meaning of EBM ?
39. What is the meaning of AIMRD ?
40. What is the meaning of CERTEF?
41. What is the meaning of CRIS?


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PART ? B
Medical-Statistics (20Marks)
1. Definition, scope and importance of the Medical statistics
2. Common statistical terms and notations
a. Population
b. Sample
c. Data
d. Variable
e. Normal distribution
3. Collection and Presentation of data
a. Tabular
b. Graphical
c. Diagrammatical
4. Measures of location
a. Average
b. Percentile
Measures of Central Tendency
a. Arithmetic mean
b. Median
c. Mode
5. Variability and its measurement
a. Range
b. Standard deviation
c. Standard error
6. Introduction to probability and test of significance
7. Parametric and non parametric tests
8. Introduction to commonly used statistical soft-wares.
Page 10 of 19






1. What is statistics? What are its characteristics?
2. What is medical statistics? Write the importance of medical statistics?
3. What is medical statistics? What are the scopes of medical statistics?
4. What are the functions of statistics? Write the enumerate limitations of statistics.
5. What are the differences between population and sample?
6. What do you mean by sample? Why do we use sample in statistics research?
7. What do you mean by sample? Write the main object of the sample.
8. What do you mean by data? Write the type of data.
9. What are the sources of data collection?
10. What are the methods of data collection?
11. What do you mean by variables? State its types.
12. State the difference between primary data & secondary data.
13. Explain the methods of collection of primary data.
14. Discuss the advantages & limitations of the method of direct inquiry of collecting
primary data.
15. Discuss the advantages and limitations of the method of indirect inquiry of collecting
primary data.
16. State the source of Secondary data.
17. What do you mean by data presentation? State its importance.
18. What do you mean by data presentations? Explain the types of Table.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY & MEDICAL STATISTICS
Part B 20 Marks
5 marks Questions


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19. State the advantages of classification of data.
20. State the uses of a table?
21. Explain the guiding rules for tabulation. What are requisites of good table?
22. Explain the different types of table.
23. What are the importance of diagrams & their limitation?
24. What are the importance of graphical presentation & their limitations?
25. What are the differences between diagrams &graphs?
26. What are general rule for constructing a diagrams?
27. Explain the type of diagrams.
28. Explain: - one dimensional diagrams
29. Explain:-two dimensional diagrams
30. Explain:-three dimensional diagrams
31. Explain:-pictogram
32. Explain:-cartogram
33. Explain:-frequency polygon
34. Explain:-Frequency curve
35. What is line diagram??Discuss with example.
36. What do you mean by bar diagram? What are importants to draw a bar diagram?
37. What do you mean by two ?dimensional diagrams? Explain their types.
38. Write down the steps for construction of pie-diagram.
39. What do you mean by Histogram? Explain Steps of construction.
40. What do you mean by measures of location and measures of dispersion?
41. Explain: - Mean
42. Explain: - Median
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43. Explain:-Mode
44. Explain:-Geometric mean
45. Explain:-Harmonic mean
46. Explain:-percentile
47. State the characteristics of an ideal measure of central tendency
48. Define the mean and state its merits and demerits.
49. Define the median and state its merits and demerits.
50. Define the mode and state its merits and demerits.
51. Define the geometric mean and state its merits and demerits.
52. Define the percentile and state its merits and demerits.
53. What do you mean by measures of dispersion? Explain its characteristics.
54. What do you mean by range? Explain its merits and demerits
55. What do you mean by interquartile range? Explain its merits and demerits.
56. What do you mean by standard deviation? Explain its merits and demerits.
57. What do you mean by standard error of a statistics? Explain its uses.
58. Explain the concept of probability
a) Mathematical [priori approach]
b) Relative frequency [empirical approach]
{Statistical definition}
59. Explain axiomatic probability.
60. Explain conditional probability.
61. Explain addition theory of probability.
62. Explain multiplication theory of probability.
63. Explain Bayes? theorem of probability.
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64. What is normal distribution? Explain rough sketch, density, function & important
properties.
65. What do you mean by significance levels?
66. What is hypothesis and describe its types.
67. What is test of a statistical hypothesis? Explain Errors.
68. What is Type ?I error? What is Type ?II error? How can be the risk of both of types of
errors minimized?
69. What do you mean by parametric and non-parametric tests? Explain it.
70. What are the differences between parametric and non-parametric tests.
71. What are corresponding non parametric test relevant to parametric test.
72. Explain: - Karl person?s coefficient correlation
73. Explain: - Wilcoxon rank ?sum test
74. Explain: - Kruskal ?Wallis test
75. Explain: - Wilcocon signed rank test
76. Explain: - Spearman?s rank correlation coefficient
77. Explain: - Mc.Nemar?s test
78. Explain: - Chi-square test
79. Explain: - T- test
80. Explain: - Z ? test
81. Explain: - F ? test
82. Define student?s T statistics and density function.
83. What are types of T ? tests? Explain it.
84. What are types of Z- tests? Explain it.
85. What are types of F-tests? Explain it.
86. What is ANOVA? Explain it.
Page 14 of 19

87. What do you mean by statistical software? What are importance of statistical
software?

Marks 5 / question (calculation)
88. The following data show the number of daily patients. Find the mean of numbers of
patients.
7, 13,4,3,8,6,9,6
89. Find the mean incubation period of 9 polio cases given below.
23, 22, 20,24,16,17,18,19,20

90. Heights in centimeters for school children are given below
Heights 148 143 160 152 157 150 155
No of
children
2 2 2 2 2 2 2

91. The mean weight of a group of 20 persons was found to be 55kg. Later it was
discovered that the one of them reported his weight as 45kg which was actually
54kg. Find the correct mean of their weights.

92. The following table shows the number of children per family in a certain area. Find
the mean number of children for family.
No of
children
0 1 2 3 4 5
No of families 4 8 23 8 6 3

93. The height of 7 boys aged 14 years is given in cm with fraction in the series below.
Find median
145.8, 152.1, 153.6, 146.9, 148.8,150,157
94. The following table shows the record of absent students of class during a month.
Find the median of absent days students.
No of absent days 0 1 2 3 4 5
No of student 8 12 18 9 5 1
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95. The numbers of books purchased by each of the 15 persons from a book store are
as follows. Find the mode.

1,0,2,2,3,4,2,7,2,2,5,4,2,1,2
96. The number of patients arriving at a clinic each hour during working hours of a
day recorded as follows.

3,5,4,2,7,8,13
97. The following data show the heights of girls. Find the range
Heights
(cm)
126 110 91 115 112 80 100 93 97 106

98. From following information of monthly Y expenditure of drog. find the range of
expenditure
Monthly
expenditure
3500 4000 5000 7500 10000 12000
No of person 3 21 30 19 6 5

99. In a survey of 200 boys of which 75 were intelligent and of them 40 had skilled
fathers, while 85 of the unintelligent boys had unskilled fathers . Do these figures are
consists.
100. Birth and death rates of some countries are given below. For comparing them drew
bar diagram.
Country USA INDIA JAPAN GERMANY UK
Birth rate 17.5 33.8 27.5 16.2 15.6
Death rate 10.6 24.3 17.6 11.2 12.1
101. Details of monthly income and expenditure of two families are as follows. Represent
the same in sub divide bar diagram.
Income
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Family A Family B
6000 8000

Expenditure
Family A Family B
Food 3000 4000
Clothing 1000 2000
Rent 700 1000
Others 1300 1000

102. Kesari jeevan was given to 7 volunteers to see the effect on weight gain is as
mentioned below. Find the variance of weight
Weight in kg. = 52,58,40,60,54,38,48














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1. What is statistics?
2. What is medical statistics?
3. Definition of statistics.
4. Definition of medical statistics.
5. Define population.
6. Define sample.
7. What do you mean by data?
8. What do you mean by variable?
9. Define quantitative data.
10. Define qualitative data.
11. Data presentation ?Explain
12. What do you mean by tabulation?
13. What do you mean by bar diagram?
14. Write the different type of bar diagram.
15. What do you mean by histogram?
16. Write about Pie-Diagram.
17. What are differences between histogram & bar diagram?
18. Cumulative frequency diagram ? Explain it.
19. Scatter diagram ?Explain
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Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












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SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

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1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
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18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
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41. What is hypothesis? What are Characteristics of hypothesis?
42. How the hypothesis is tested?
43. What is importance of hypothesis?
44. What do you mean by aims and objectives?
45. What are the characteristics of aims and objectives?
46. What are points to consider while writing aims and objectives?
47. What are the importance of aims and objectives?
48. What do you mean by material and method in a research?
49. What are steps to write materials and methods?
50. What are importance of materials and methods?
51. What is observation of research?
52. What are features of research?
53. What is result of research?
54. What are features of result?
55. How is an effective result written?
56. What are an effects in result of observation?
57. How is an effective observation written?
58. What do you mean by communication of research? What are method of
communication of research?
59. What are the role of the Pramanas as research tools?
60. Write about the role of various Pramanas as research tool.
61. What is concept of ethics in research?
62. What is importance of ethics in research?
63. What do you mean by IEC and explain it?
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64. What is concept of evidence based medicine?
65. What are steps of EBM?
66. What are advantages and disadvantages of EBM?
67. What do you mean by scientific writing?
68. Write down the purpose of scientific writing?
69. Write down the basic structure of scientific writing?
70. Explain AIMRD.
71. What are importance of Information technology in data mining?
72. What do you mean by research data portal concerned with Ayurveda and
contemporary medicine?
73. What are steps to search data using such portals?
74. Explain DHARA.
75. Explain Pubmed.
76. Explain AYUSH research Portal
77. Explain Bioinformatics center.
78. Explain research management informatics system.








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1. What do you mean by Aptopadesha?
2. What do you mean by Pratyaksha Pramana?
3. What do you mean by Anumana Pramana?
4. What do you mean by Yukti Pramana?
5. What do you mean by Anveshana?
6. What do you mean by Gaveshna?
7. What do you mean by Anusandhan?
8. What do you mean by Prayeshana?
9. What do you mean by Shodha?
10. Define Research in Ayurved?
11. What is literary research?
12. What is fundamental research?
13. What is clinical research?
14. What is drug research?
15. What is yoga and astrology in relation to Ayurveda?
16. What is mean by Ecological study design?
17. What is mean by proportional mortality ration study design?
18. What is mean by cross ?sectional study design?
19. What is mean by case ?contral study design?
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20. What is mean by retrospective and prospective cohort study design?
21. What is mean by diagnostic testing and evaluation study designs?
22. What is pre-post study design?
23. What is the meaning of RCT?
24. What is non-randomized trial study design?
25. What is Crossover randomized controlled trial study design?
26. What is the meaning of FINER?
27. What is the meaning of PICOT?
28. What is review of literature?
29. What is hypothesis?
30. What is objectives?
31. What Is materials?
32. What is methods?
33. What is Observations?
34. What is results?
35. What do you mean by communication of research?
36. What is research tools?
37. What is ethics in research?
38. What is the meaning of EBM ?
39. What is the meaning of AIMRD ?
40. What is the meaning of CERTEF?
41. What is the meaning of CRIS?


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PART ? B
Medical-Statistics (20Marks)
1. Definition, scope and importance of the Medical statistics
2. Common statistical terms and notations
a. Population
b. Sample
c. Data
d. Variable
e. Normal distribution
3. Collection and Presentation of data
a. Tabular
b. Graphical
c. Diagrammatical
4. Measures of location
a. Average
b. Percentile
Measures of Central Tendency
a. Arithmetic mean
b. Median
c. Mode
5. Variability and its measurement
a. Range
b. Standard deviation
c. Standard error
6. Introduction to probability and test of significance
7. Parametric and non parametric tests
8. Introduction to commonly used statistical soft-wares.
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1. What is statistics? What are its characteristics?
2. What is medical statistics? Write the importance of medical statistics?
3. What is medical statistics? What are the scopes of medical statistics?
4. What are the functions of statistics? Write the enumerate limitations of statistics.
5. What are the differences between population and sample?
6. What do you mean by sample? Why do we use sample in statistics research?
7. What do you mean by sample? Write the main object of the sample.
8. What do you mean by data? Write the type of data.
9. What are the sources of data collection?
10. What are the methods of data collection?
11. What do you mean by variables? State its types.
12. State the difference between primary data & secondary data.
13. Explain the methods of collection of primary data.
14. Discuss the advantages & limitations of the method of direct inquiry of collecting
primary data.
15. Discuss the advantages and limitations of the method of indirect inquiry of collecting
primary data.
16. State the source of Secondary data.
17. What do you mean by data presentation? State its importance.
18. What do you mean by data presentations? Explain the types of Table.
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19. State the advantages of classification of data.
20. State the uses of a table?
21. Explain the guiding rules for tabulation. What are requisites of good table?
22. Explain the different types of table.
23. What are the importance of diagrams & their limitation?
24. What are the importance of graphical presentation & their limitations?
25. What are the differences between diagrams &graphs?
26. What are general rule for constructing a diagrams?
27. Explain the type of diagrams.
28. Explain: - one dimensional diagrams
29. Explain:-two dimensional diagrams
30. Explain:-three dimensional diagrams
31. Explain:-pictogram
32. Explain:-cartogram
33. Explain:-frequency polygon
34. Explain:-Frequency curve
35. What is line diagram??Discuss with example.
36. What do you mean by bar diagram? What are importants to draw a bar diagram?
37. What do you mean by two ?dimensional diagrams? Explain their types.
38. Write down the steps for construction of pie-diagram.
39. What do you mean by Histogram? Explain Steps of construction.
40. What do you mean by measures of location and measures of dispersion?
41. Explain: - Mean
42. Explain: - Median
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43. Explain:-Mode
44. Explain:-Geometric mean
45. Explain:-Harmonic mean
46. Explain:-percentile
47. State the characteristics of an ideal measure of central tendency
48. Define the mean and state its merits and demerits.
49. Define the median and state its merits and demerits.
50. Define the mode and state its merits and demerits.
51. Define the geometric mean and state its merits and demerits.
52. Define the percentile and state its merits and demerits.
53. What do you mean by measures of dispersion? Explain its characteristics.
54. What do you mean by range? Explain its merits and demerits
55. What do you mean by interquartile range? Explain its merits and demerits.
56. What do you mean by standard deviation? Explain its merits and demerits.
57. What do you mean by standard error of a statistics? Explain its uses.
58. Explain the concept of probability
a) Mathematical [priori approach]
b) Relative frequency [empirical approach]
{Statistical definition}
59. Explain axiomatic probability.
60. Explain conditional probability.
61. Explain addition theory of probability.
62. Explain multiplication theory of probability.
63. Explain Bayes? theorem of probability.
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64. What is normal distribution? Explain rough sketch, density, function & important
properties.
65. What do you mean by significance levels?
66. What is hypothesis and describe its types.
67. What is test of a statistical hypothesis? Explain Errors.
68. What is Type ?I error? What is Type ?II error? How can be the risk of both of types of
errors minimized?
69. What do you mean by parametric and non-parametric tests? Explain it.
70. What are the differences between parametric and non-parametric tests.
71. What are corresponding non parametric test relevant to parametric test.
72. Explain: - Karl person?s coefficient correlation
73. Explain: - Wilcoxon rank ?sum test
74. Explain: - Kruskal ?Wallis test
75. Explain: - Wilcocon signed rank test
76. Explain: - Spearman?s rank correlation coefficient
77. Explain: - Mc.Nemar?s test
78. Explain: - Chi-square test
79. Explain: - T- test
80. Explain: - Z ? test
81. Explain: - F ? test
82. Define student?s T statistics and density function.
83. What are types of T ? tests? Explain it.
84. What are types of Z- tests? Explain it.
85. What are types of F-tests? Explain it.
86. What is ANOVA? Explain it.
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87. What do you mean by statistical software? What are importance of statistical
software?

Marks 5 / question (calculation)
88. The following data show the number of daily patients. Find the mean of numbers of
patients.
7, 13,4,3,8,6,9,6
89. Find the mean incubation period of 9 polio cases given below.
23, 22, 20,24,16,17,18,19,20

90. Heights in centimeters for school children are given below
Heights 148 143 160 152 157 150 155
No of
children
2 2 2 2 2 2 2

91. The mean weight of a group of 20 persons was found to be 55kg. Later it was
discovered that the one of them reported his weight as 45kg which was actually
54kg. Find the correct mean of their weights.

92. The following table shows the number of children per family in a certain area. Find
the mean number of children for family.
No of
children
0 1 2 3 4 5
No of families 4 8 23 8 6 3

93. The height of 7 boys aged 14 years is given in cm with fraction in the series below.
Find median
145.8, 152.1, 153.6, 146.9, 148.8,150,157
94. The following table shows the record of absent students of class during a month.
Find the median of absent days students.
No of absent days 0 1 2 3 4 5
No of student 8 12 18 9 5 1
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95. The numbers of books purchased by each of the 15 persons from a book store are
as follows. Find the mode.

1,0,2,2,3,4,2,7,2,2,5,4,2,1,2
96. The number of patients arriving at a clinic each hour during working hours of a
day recorded as follows.

3,5,4,2,7,8,13
97. The following data show the heights of girls. Find the range
Heights
(cm)
126 110 91 115 112 80 100 93 97 106

98. From following information of monthly Y expenditure of drog. find the range of
expenditure
Monthly
expenditure
3500 4000 5000 7500 10000 12000
No of person 3 21 30 19 6 5

99. In a survey of 200 boys of which 75 were intelligent and of them 40 had skilled
fathers, while 85 of the unintelligent boys had unskilled fathers . Do these figures are
consists.
100. Birth and death rates of some countries are given below. For comparing them drew
bar diagram.
Country USA INDIA JAPAN GERMANY UK
Birth rate 17.5 33.8 27.5 16.2 15.6
Death rate 10.6 24.3 17.6 11.2 12.1
101. Details of monthly income and expenditure of two families are as follows. Represent
the same in sub divide bar diagram.
Income
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Family A Family B
6000 8000

Expenditure
Family A Family B
Food 3000 4000
Clothing 1000 2000
Rent 700 1000
Others 1300 1000

102. Kesari jeevan was given to 7 volunteers to see the effect on weight gain is as
mentioned below. Find the variance of weight
Weight in kg. = 52,58,40,60,54,38,48














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1. What is statistics?
2. What is medical statistics?
3. Definition of statistics.
4. Definition of medical statistics.
5. Define population.
6. Define sample.
7. What do you mean by data?
8. What do you mean by variable?
9. Define quantitative data.
10. Define qualitative data.
11. Data presentation ?Explain
12. What do you mean by tabulation?
13. What do you mean by bar diagram?
14. Write the different type of bar diagram.
15. What do you mean by histogram?
16. Write about Pie-Diagram.
17. What are differences between histogram & bar diagram?
18. Cumulative frequency diagram ? Explain it.
19. Scatter diagram ?Explain
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20. What do you mean by measures of location?
21. Define ? Mean
22. Define ? Median
23. Define ? Mode
24. What do you mean by range?
25. What do you mean by Interquartile range ?
26. What do you mean by standard deviation?
27. What do you mean by variance?
28. What is standard error?
29. Define ? Random experiment.
30. Define - Set.
31. Define - Sub-set.
32. Define - Universal set.
33. Define - Null set.
34. Define - Sample space.
35. Define - Out come.
36. Define - Favorable outcome.
37. Define - Exhaustive case (event).
38. Define ? Mutually exclusive cases (event).
39. Define ? Event.
40. Define - Independent event.
41. Define ? Equally likely event.
42. Define - Intersecting event.
43. Define - Union event.
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Section A

1. One compulsory question 5 marks
2. Answer any 3 out of 5 questions, of 5 marks each 15 marks
3. Answer any 5 out of 6 questions, of 2 marks each 10 marks

Section B
4. One compulsory question 5 marks
5. Answer any 1 out of 2 question 5 marks
6. Answer any 5 out of 6 question, of 2 marks each 10 marks












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SYLLABUS

PART ? A
Research Methodology (30 Marks)

1. Brief historical background of research in Ayurved and contemporary medical science
Evidences of researches in ayurvedic classics
2. Etymology, definitions and synonyms (Anveshana, Gaveshana, Prayeshana,
Anusandhan and Shodha) of the word Research
3. Research in Ayurved - Scope, need, importance, utility
4. Types of Research (familiarization of the terms)
a) Pure and Applied
b) Qualitative, Quantitative and Mixed Observational and interventional.
5. Research process (Importance of each steps in brief)
a. Selection of the topic
b. Review of the literature
c. Formulation of Hypothesis
d. Aims and Objectives
e. Materials and methods
f. Observations and results
g. Methods of communication of Research
6. Research tools ? Role of the pramanas as research tools
7. The concept and importance of ethics in research
8. Concept of Evidenvce Based Medicine and Scientific Writing
9. Importance of IT in data mining and important research data portalsconcerned with
Ayurved and contemporary medical science (DHARA , PubMed, Ayush Research
Portal, Bioinformatics Center, Research Management Informatic System etc.)

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1. Write the history of research in Ayurved?
2. Define and Mention etymology Anveshana.
3. Define and Mention etymology Gaveshana.
4. Define and Mention etymology Prayeshana
5. Define and Mention etymology Anusadhan
6. Define and Mention etymology Shodha
7. What do you mean by Pramana? What are its types and explain any one Pramana?
8. What do you mean by Anusandhan? Write its classification and importance.
9. Explain: research in Ayurveda.
10. Write the scope of research in Ayurved?
[What are scopes of research in Ayurved?]
11. Why is research needed in Ayurved?
12. Explain the utilities of research in Ayurved.
13. What are type of research? Explain it.
14. Explain the pure Research (fundamental research ,basic research)
15. Explain the applied Research.
16. Explain the descriptive research.
17. Explain the analytical research.
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18. Explain the quantitative research.
19. Explain the qualitative research.
20. Explain the mixed research.
21. Explain the experimental research.
22. Explain non experimental research.
23. Write the type of non experimental research.
24. Explain primary research.
25. Explain secondary research.
26. Explain observational research.
27. Explain interventional research.
28. What are differences between qualitative and quantitative research?
29. What are merits and demerits of mixed research?
30. What do you mean by observation in research?
31. What are the type of observation and how they are linked with potential issues of
research?
32. What do you mean by observational and interventional study designs?
33. What are the types of observation study designs?
34. What are the types of interventional study designs?
35. What are preclinical and clinical research designs?
36. What do you mean by Research Problem?
37. What are steps for selection of topic for a research?
38. What do you mean by review of literature?
39. What is necessary of review of literature?
40. What is importance of review of literature?
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41. What is hypothesis? What are Characteristics of hypothesis?
42. How the hypothesis is tested?
43. What is importance of hypothesis?
44. What do you mean by aims and objectives?
45. What are the characteristics of aims and objectives?
46. What are points to consider while writing aims and objectives?
47. What are the importance of aims and objectives?
48. What do you mean by material and method in a research?
49. What are steps to write materials and methods?
50. What are importance of materials and methods?
51. What is observation of research?
52. What are features of research?
53. What is result of research?
54. What are features of result?
55. How is an effective result written?
56. What are an effects in result of observation?
57. How is an effective observation written?
58. What do you mean by communication of research? What are method of
communication of research?
59. What are the role of the Pramanas as research tools?
60. Write about the role of various Pramanas as research tool.
61. What is concept of ethics in research?
62. What is importance of ethics in research?
63. What do you mean by IEC and explain it?
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64. What is concept of evidence based medicine?
65. What are steps of EBM?
66. What are advantages and disadvantages of EBM?
67. What do you mean by scientific writing?
68. Write down the purpose of scientific writing?
69. Write down the basic structure of scientific writing?
70. Explain AIMRD.
71. What are importance of Information technology in data mining?
72. What do you mean by research data portal concerned with Ayurveda and
contemporary medicine?
73. What are steps to search data using such portals?
74. Explain DHARA.
75. Explain Pubmed.
76. Explain AYUSH research Portal
77. Explain Bioinformatics center.
78. Explain research management informatics system.








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1. What do you mean by Aptopadesha?
2. What do you mean by Pratyaksha Pramana?
3. What do you mean by Anumana Pramana?
4. What do you mean by Yukti Pramana?
5. What do you mean by Anveshana?
6. What do you mean by Gaveshna?
7. What do you mean by Anusandhan?
8. What do you mean by Prayeshana?
9. What do you mean by Shodha?
10. Define Research in Ayurved?
11. What is literary research?
12. What is fundamental research?
13. What is clinical research?
14. What is drug research?
15. What is yoga and astrology in relation to Ayurveda?
16. What is mean by Ecological study design?
17. What is mean by proportional mortality ration study design?
18. What is mean by cross ?sectional study design?
19. What is mean by case ?contral study design?
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20. What is mean by retrospective and prospective cohort study design?
21. What is mean by diagnostic testing and evaluation study designs?
22. What is pre-post study design?
23. What is the meaning of RCT?
24. What is non-randomized trial study design?
25. What is Crossover randomized controlled trial study design?
26. What is the meaning of FINER?
27. What is the meaning of PICOT?
28. What is review of literature?
29. What is hypothesis?
30. What is objectives?
31. What Is materials?
32. What is methods?
33. What is Observations?
34. What is results?
35. What do you mean by communication of research?
36. What is research tools?
37. What is ethics in research?
38. What is the meaning of EBM ?
39. What is the meaning of AIMRD ?
40. What is the meaning of CERTEF?
41. What is the meaning of CRIS?


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PART ? B
Medical-Statistics (20Marks)
1. Definition, scope and importance of the Medical statistics
2. Common statistical terms and notations
a. Population
b. Sample
c. Data
d. Variable
e. Normal distribution
3. Collection and Presentation of data
a. Tabular
b. Graphical
c. Diagrammatical
4. Measures of location
a. Average
b. Percentile
Measures of Central Tendency
a. Arithmetic mean
b. Median
c. Mode
5. Variability and its measurement
a. Range
b. Standard deviation
c. Standard error
6. Introduction to probability and test of significance
7. Parametric and non parametric tests
8. Introduction to commonly used statistical soft-wares.
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1. What is statistics? What are its characteristics?
2. What is medical statistics? Write the importance of medical statistics?
3. What is medical statistics? What are the scopes of medical statistics?
4. What are the functions of statistics? Write the enumerate limitations of statistics.
5. What are the differences between population and sample?
6. What do you mean by sample? Why do we use sample in statistics research?
7. What do you mean by sample? Write the main object of the sample.
8. What do you mean by data? Write the type of data.
9. What are the sources of data collection?
10. What are the methods of data collection?
11. What do you mean by variables? State its types.
12. State the difference between primary data & secondary data.
13. Explain the methods of collection of primary data.
14. Discuss the advantages & limitations of the method of direct inquiry of collecting
primary data.
15. Discuss the advantages and limitations of the method of indirect inquiry of collecting
primary data.
16. State the source of Secondary data.
17. What do you mean by data presentation? State its importance.
18. What do you mean by data presentations? Explain the types of Table.
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19. State the advantages of classification of data.
20. State the uses of a table?
21. Explain the guiding rules for tabulation. What are requisites of good table?
22. Explain the different types of table.
23. What are the importance of diagrams & their limitation?
24. What are the importance of graphical presentation & their limitations?
25. What are the differences between diagrams &graphs?
26. What are general rule for constructing a diagrams?
27. Explain the type of diagrams.
28. Explain: - one dimensional diagrams
29. Explain:-two dimensional diagrams
30. Explain:-three dimensional diagrams
31. Explain:-pictogram
32. Explain:-cartogram
33. Explain:-frequency polygon
34. Explain:-Frequency curve
35. What is line diagram??Discuss with example.
36. What do you mean by bar diagram? What are importants to draw a bar diagram?
37. What do you mean by two ?dimensional diagrams? Explain their types.
38. Write down the steps for construction of pie-diagram.
39. What do you mean by Histogram? Explain Steps of construction.
40. What do you mean by measures of location and measures of dispersion?
41. Explain: - Mean
42. Explain: - Median
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43. Explain:-Mode
44. Explain:-Geometric mean
45. Explain:-Harmonic mean
46. Explain:-percentile
47. State the characteristics of an ideal measure of central tendency
48. Define the mean and state its merits and demerits.
49. Define the median and state its merits and demerits.
50. Define the mode and state its merits and demerits.
51. Define the geometric mean and state its merits and demerits.
52. Define the percentile and state its merits and demerits.
53. What do you mean by measures of dispersion? Explain its characteristics.
54. What do you mean by range? Explain its merits and demerits
55. What do you mean by interquartile range? Explain its merits and demerits.
56. What do you mean by standard deviation? Explain its merits and demerits.
57. What do you mean by standard error of a statistics? Explain its uses.
58. Explain the concept of probability
a) Mathematical [priori approach]
b) Relative frequency [empirical approach]
{Statistical definition}
59. Explain axiomatic probability.
60. Explain conditional probability.
61. Explain addition theory of probability.
62. Explain multiplication theory of probability.
63. Explain Bayes? theorem of probability.
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64. What is normal distribution? Explain rough sketch, density, function & important
properties.
65. What do you mean by significance levels?
66. What is hypothesis and describe its types.
67. What is test of a statistical hypothesis? Explain Errors.
68. What is Type ?I error? What is Type ?II error? How can be the risk of both of types of
errors minimized?
69. What do you mean by parametric and non-parametric tests? Explain it.
70. What are the differences between parametric and non-parametric tests.
71. What are corresponding non parametric test relevant to parametric test.
72. Explain: - Karl person?s coefficient correlation
73. Explain: - Wilcoxon rank ?sum test
74. Explain: - Kruskal ?Wallis test
75. Explain: - Wilcocon signed rank test
76. Explain: - Spearman?s rank correlation coefficient
77. Explain: - Mc.Nemar?s test
78. Explain: - Chi-square test
79. Explain: - T- test
80. Explain: - Z ? test
81. Explain: - F ? test
82. Define student?s T statistics and density function.
83. What are types of T ? tests? Explain it.
84. What are types of Z- tests? Explain it.
85. What are types of F-tests? Explain it.
86. What is ANOVA? Explain it.
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87. What do you mean by statistical software? What are importance of statistical
software?

Marks 5 / question (calculation)
88. The following data show the number of daily patients. Find the mean of numbers of
patients.
7, 13,4,3,8,6,9,6
89. Find the mean incubation period of 9 polio cases given below.
23, 22, 20,24,16,17,18,19,20

90. Heights in centimeters for school children are given below
Heights 148 143 160 152 157 150 155
No of
children
2 2 2 2 2 2 2

91. The mean weight of a group of 20 persons was found to be 55kg. Later it was
discovered that the one of them reported his weight as 45kg which was actually
54kg. Find the correct mean of their weights.

92. The following table shows the number of children per family in a certain area. Find
the mean number of children for family.
No of
children
0 1 2 3 4 5
No of families 4 8 23 8 6 3

93. The height of 7 boys aged 14 years is given in cm with fraction in the series below.
Find median
145.8, 152.1, 153.6, 146.9, 148.8,150,157
94. The following table shows the record of absent students of class during a month.
Find the median of absent days students.
No of absent days 0 1 2 3 4 5
No of student 8 12 18 9 5 1
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95. The numbers of books purchased by each of the 15 persons from a book store are
as follows. Find the mode.

1,0,2,2,3,4,2,7,2,2,5,4,2,1,2
96. The number of patients arriving at a clinic each hour during working hours of a
day recorded as follows.

3,5,4,2,7,8,13
97. The following data show the heights of girls. Find the range
Heights
(cm)
126 110 91 115 112 80 100 93 97 106

98. From following information of monthly Y expenditure of drog. find the range of
expenditure
Monthly
expenditure
3500 4000 5000 7500 10000 12000
No of person 3 21 30 19 6 5

99. In a survey of 200 boys of which 75 were intelligent and of them 40 had skilled
fathers, while 85 of the unintelligent boys had unskilled fathers . Do these figures are
consists.
100. Birth and death rates of some countries are given below. For comparing them drew
bar diagram.
Country USA INDIA JAPAN GERMANY UK
Birth rate 17.5 33.8 27.5 16.2 15.6
Death rate 10.6 24.3 17.6 11.2 12.1
101. Details of monthly income and expenditure of two families are as follows. Represent
the same in sub divide bar diagram.
Income
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Family A Family B
6000 8000

Expenditure
Family A Family B
Food 3000 4000
Clothing 1000 2000
Rent 700 1000
Others 1300 1000

102. Kesari jeevan was given to 7 volunteers to see the effect on weight gain is as
mentioned below. Find the variance of weight
Weight in kg. = 52,58,40,60,54,38,48














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1. What is statistics?
2. What is medical statistics?
3. Definition of statistics.
4. Definition of medical statistics.
5. Define population.
6. Define sample.
7. What do you mean by data?
8. What do you mean by variable?
9. Define quantitative data.
10. Define qualitative data.
11. Data presentation ?Explain
12. What do you mean by tabulation?
13. What do you mean by bar diagram?
14. Write the different type of bar diagram.
15. What do you mean by histogram?
16. Write about Pie-Diagram.
17. What are differences between histogram & bar diagram?
18. Cumulative frequency diagram ? Explain it.
19. Scatter diagram ?Explain
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20. What do you mean by measures of location?
21. Define ? Mean
22. Define ? Median
23. Define ? Mode
24. What do you mean by range?
25. What do you mean by Interquartile range ?
26. What do you mean by standard deviation?
27. What do you mean by variance?
28. What is standard error?
29. Define ? Random experiment.
30. Define - Set.
31. Define - Sub-set.
32. Define - Universal set.
33. Define - Null set.
34. Define - Sample space.
35. Define - Out come.
36. Define - Favorable outcome.
37. Define - Exhaustive case (event).
38. Define ? Mutually exclusive cases (event).
39. Define ? Event.
40. Define - Independent event.
41. Define ? Equally likely event.
42. Define - Intersecting event.
43. Define - Union event.
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44. Define - Complementary event.
45. Define ? Difference event.
46. What is normal distribution?
47. What do you mean by test of significance?
48. What is Type-I error?
49. What is Type ?II error?
50. What is critical region?
[What is tailed test?]
51. Write some symbol of the parameters and their statistics.
52. Write name of non-parametric test.
53. Write about SAS.
54. Write about SPSS.
55. Write about MINITAB.
56. Write about MS.EXCEL.
57. Write about STATA.
58. Write about JASP.
59. Write about SIGMASTAT.
60. Write about R software.
61. Write about MATLAB software.
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