Research Methodology of Yoga Practice

          1.1     Meaning and Definition of Research. Need of Research in Yoga

1.2    Types of Research: Analytical, Descriptive, Experimental, Qualitative and Meta-Analysis.

1.3   Research Problem: Meaning of Research Problem, location of research problem, criteria for Selection of Research Problem.

        1.4     Delimitation and limitations of research problem

           2.1     Meaning and Definition of Sample and Population.

2.2     Types of sampling methods: Probability Sampling Methods and Non – Probability Sampling Methods.

          2.3     Meaning and definition of Hypothesis, Importance Hypothesis in esearch,

            2.4       Types of Hypothesis, Type 1 and Type 2 errors in Hypothesis testing.

3.1     Meaning and need for survey of related literature, Literature Sources – Primary and Secondary sources, Steps in Literature Search. Method for writing of Literature review.

3.2     Variables: Meaning and Definition of Variables, types of variables: Dependent, Independent, Control, Extraneous, Moderator and Predictor.

3.3     Research Proposal: Meaning and Significance of Research Proposal, Steps of preparing Research proposal/synopsis

  3.4                 Format of a synopsis

  4.1     Research Report: Details of Chaptalization of Thesis/ Dissertation

  4.2     Method of writing abstract, method of writing full paper for presenting in a conference and to publish in journals.

  4.3     Technicalities of writing: Footnote and Bibliography.

4.4     Ethical Issues in Research: Areas of Dishonesty in research

5.1     Definition and types of statistics, Levels of measurement, construction of frequency distribution, graphical representations: Histogram, frequency polygon, ogives, Bar diagram, pie charts,

            5.2     Analysis of Data.

5.3     Descriptive Statistics: Measures of Central Tendency, measures of Variability Correlation and Multiple regression.

5.4     Inferential Statistics: Normal Probability Curve, Standard Error Formulas, t test, ANOVA, F -test, Chi square, Z test. Non Parametric Statistics: Uses; types.