Statistics and experimental design : an introduction for biologists and biochemists
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Statistics and experimental design : an introduction for biologists and biochemists
Edward Arnold , Halsted Press, 1994
3rd ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [182]) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Many gross errors in applying statistical methods arise through not knowing when they work, or when the results are a nonsense, and through using methods that are not entirely appropriate to the problems being analysed. The most effective way of learning to use and appreciate statistical methods is through an applied approach. Clarke's popular textbook provides a non-mathematical account of all the statistical methods commonly used by students and researchers in the biological sciences. It describes the methods, their uses and the interpretation of results and in addition, presents the ideas behind, and the limitations of, standard statistical procedure. The text acknowledges the importance of computers in the analysis of data and gives students advice on the use of MINITAB in statistical work and the use of computer graphics to illustrate reports.
Table of Contents
- Natural variation and types of data
- studying and summarizing data graphically
- numerical summaries of data
- populations, samples and inferences
- probability, the binomial and geometric distributions
- randomness and the Poisson distribution
- the normal distribution as a model for continuous data
- significance tests for means - normal and student's t
- confidence intervals for means
- non-parametric tests for relocation
- tests and estimates for variances
- tests using the chi-squared distribution
- correlation between two variable
- fitting straight lines - linear regression
- the principles of experimental design - the completely randomized design
- randomized blocks and the precision of results
- simple factorial experiments
- missing observations and non-normality
- a guide to choosing a significance test.
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