• Exactly as per Indian National Council syllabus for BSc nursing course: This edition is structured exactly as per new curriculum prescribed by Indian Nursing Council for the BSc nursing course. • Comprehensive and complete: This textbook presents complete required content very comprehensively to meet all the needs of undergraduate and postgraduate nursing students and PhD scholars related to research methods and biostatistics. • Simple and lucid content: This edition provides clear and concise content about concepts and principles of research methodology and biostatistics in simple and lucid manner incorporating their applications to health care and nursing sciences. • Easy to follow: This is an applied, user-friendly and self-explanatory textbook with simple language and illustrative presentation to facilitate quick review and recall of important concepts • An example-oriented book: This is an example-oriented book, where numerous nursing research examples are cited throughout the textbook for enriching understanding about applicability of research methods and biostatistics. • Systematic and logical organization: The content is organized is systemic and logical manner to gain better understanding of presented content. • Multiple choice questions (MCQs): Approximately 250 multiple choice questions have been included, placed at the end of each chapter. These MCQs will be useful for the readers to prepare for qualifying entrance examinations, especially MScN and PhD nursing courses.