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Statistics and experimental design : an introduction for biologists and biochemists / Geoffrey M. Clarke.

By: Clarke, G. M. (Geoffrey Mallin) [author.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: London : Halsted Press, 1997Copyright date: ©1994Edition: Third edition.Description: xiii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0340593245 (paperback); 9780340593240 (paperback).Subject(s): Biometry | Experimental designDDC classification: 570.15195
Contents:
Natural variation and types of data -- Studying and summarising data graphically -- Numerical summaries of data -- Populations, samples and inferences -- Probability, the binomial and geometric distributions -- The poison distribution -- The normal distribution as a model for continuous data -- Significance tests for means: normal and student's t -- Confidence intervals for means -- Nonparametric tests for location -- Tests and estimates for variances -- Tests using the chi-squared distribution -- Correlation between two variables -- Fitting straight lines - linear regression -- The principles of experimental design: the completely randomised design -- Randomised 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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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This popular textbook provides a non-mathematical account of all those statistical methods used commonly in the biological sciences. The methods are described first, then how to use them and understand the results, and finally how to use modern computing methods to both facilitate the experiment and illustrate reports with appropriate pictures and diagrams.
There are many worked examples and exercises making the text as useful for personal study as for the classroom.

Biography: (page 182) and index.

Natural variation and types of data -- Studying and summarising data graphically -- Numerical summaries of data -- Populations, samples and inferences -- Probability, the binomial and geometric distributions -- The poison distribution -- The normal distribution as a model for continuous data -- Significance tests for means: normal and student's t -- Confidence intervals for means -- Nonparametric tests for location -- Tests and estimates for variances -- Tests using the chi-squared distribution -- Correlation between two variables -- Fitting straight lines - linear regression -- The principles of experimental design: the completely randomised design -- Randomised blocks and the precision of results -- Simple factorial experiments -- Missing observations and non-normality -- A guide to choosing a significance test.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface
  • Symbols
  • List of Illustrations
  • 1 Natural variation and types of data
  • 2 Studying and summarising data graphically
  • 3 Numerical summaries of data
  • 4 Populations, samples and inferences
  • 5 Probability, the binomial and geometric distributions
  • 6 The Poisson distribution
  • 7 The normal distribution as a model for continuous data
  • 8 Significance tests for means: normal and Student's t
  • 9 Confidence intervals for means
  • 10 Nonparametric tests for location
  • 11 Tests and estimates for variances
  • 12 Tests using the chi-squared distribution
  • 13 Correlation between two variables
  • 14 Fitting straight lines - linear regression
  • 15 The principles of experimental design: the completely randomised design
  • 16 Randomised blocks and the precision of results
  • 17 Simple factorial experiments
  • 18 Missing observations and non-normality
  • A guide to choosing a significance test
  • References and bibliography
  • Answers
  • Tables
  • I Student's t-distribution
  • II Values of the y]2 distribution
  • III Table of F-distribution
  • IV Values of the correlation coefficient
  • V Values of Spearman's rank correlation coefficient
  • VI Table of random digits
  • VII Values of z, the standard normal variable
  • Index

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