The analysis of biological data
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The analysis of biological data
Macmillan International Higher Education, c2020
3rd ed
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 733-754) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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Table of Contents
PART 1 INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS
1. Statistics and samples 1
INTERLEAF 1 Biology and the history of statistics 23
2. Displaying data 25
3. Describing data 65
4. Estimating with uncertainty 95
INTERLEAF 2 Pseudoreplication 115
5. Probability 117
6. Hypothesis testing 149
INTERLEAF 3 Why statistical significance is not the same
as biological importance 176
PART 2 PROPORTIONS AND FREQUENCIES
7. Analyzing proportions 179
INTERLEAF 4 Correlation does not require causation 201
8. Fitting probability models to frequency data 203
INTERLEAF 5 Making a plan 233
9. Contingency analysis: associations between
categorical variables 235
Review Problems 1 269
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PART 3 COMPARING NUMERICAL VALUES
10. The normal distribution 273
INTERLEAF 6 Controls in medical studies 301
11. Inference for a normal population 303
12. Comparing two means 327
INTERLEAF 7 Which test should I use? 366
13. Handling violations of assumptions 369
Review Problems 2 417
14. Designing experiments 423
INTERLEAF 8 Data dredging 456
15. Comparing means of more than two groups 459
INTERLEAF 9 Experimental and statistical mistakes 500
PART 4 REGRESSION AND CORRELATION
16. Correlation between numerical variables 503
INTERLEAF 10 Publication bias 535
17. Regression 539
INTERLEAF 11 Using species as data points 593
Review Problems 3 597
PART 5 MODERN STATISTICAL METHODS
18. Multiple explanatory variables 605
19. Computer-intensive methods 635
20. Likelihood 655
21. Meta-analysis: combining information from
multiple studies 681
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