The focus of this course is to introduce students to scientific methods, role of experimental design and statistics in ecological and environmental studies, nature of experimentation and principles of experimental design,  random variables,  probability and stochastic distributions, exploratory data analysis, design of experiments,  inferential statistics , hypothesis testing, statistical modeling, regression, Analysis of Variance and Analysis of Covariance, mixed model and multivariate analyses in ecological and environmental studies. In addition, this course aims to give students a practical skill in working with data using a powerful statistical analysis tool – R programming language.