1Department of Statistics, Govt. Arts College, Udumalpet 642 126, India.
PSG College of Arts and Science, Coimbatore - 641 014, Tamil Nadu, India.
The various indices of dispersion namely variance-mean ratio, Lloyd's indices of mean crowding(X*) and patchiness index (X*/), David and Moore's index, Lexis index, Taylor's power law and Iwao's regression were used to determine the spatial pattern of population distribution of cotton aphid, Aphis gossypii Glov and pink bollworm, Pectinophora gossypiella.