Introduction to statistics for biology. ([2007])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Robin McCleery, Trudy A. Watt, Tom Hart.
• Authors: McCleery, Robin H; Watt, T. A (Trudy A.); Hart, Tom
• Other Names: Watt, T. A (Trudy A.)
• Contents: PREFACE; ; HOW LONG IS A WORM?; Introduction; Sampling a Population; The Normal Distribution; Probability; Continuous Measurements-Worms Again; Expressing Variability; ; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; The Importance of Confidence Intervals; Calculating Confidence Intervals; Another Way of Looking At It; Your First Statistical Test; One- and Two-Tailed Tests; The Other Side of the Coin-Type II Errors; Recap-Hypothesis Testing; A Complication; Testing Fish with t; Minitab Does a One-Sample t-Test; 95% CI for Worms; Anatomy of Test Statistics; ; COMPARING THINGS: TWO SAMPLE TESTS; A Simple Case; Matched-Pairs t-Test; Another Example-Testing Twin Sheep; Independent Samples: Comparing Two Populations; Calculation of Independent Samples t-Test; One- and Two-Tailed Tests-A Reminder; Minitab Carries Out a Two-Sample t-Test; Pooling the Variances?; ; PLANNING AN EXPERIMENT; Principles of Sampling; Principles of Experimental Design; Recording Data and Simulating an Experiment; Simulating Your Experiment; ; PARTITIONING VARIATION AND CONSTRUCTING A MODEL; It's Simple; … But Not That Simple; The Example: Field Margins in Conservation; The Idea of a Statistical Model; Laying Out the Experiment; Sources of Variation: Random Variation; The Model; ; ANALYZING YOUR RESULTS: IS THERE ANYTHING THERE?; Is Spider Abundance Affected by Treatment?; Why Not Use Multiple t-Tests?; ANOVA for a Wholly Randomized Design; Comparing the Sources of Variation; The Two Extremes of Explanation: All or Nothing; The ANOVA Table; Testing Our Hypothesis; Including Blocks: Randomized Complete Block Designs; Analyzing the Spider Data Set in Minitab; The Assumptions behind ANOVA and How to Test Them; Another Use for the F-Test: Testing Homogeneity of Variance; ; INTERPRETING YOUR ANALYSIS: FROM HYPOTHESIS TESTING TO BIOLOGICAL MEANING; Treatment Means and Confidence Intervals; Difference between Two Treatment Means; Getting More Out of an Experiment: Factorial Designs and Interactions; Getting More Out of the Analysis: Using the Factorial Design to Ask More Relevant Questions; Interactions; Adding Blocking to the Factorial Analysis; How to Interpret Interaction Plots: The Plant Hormone Experiment; Loss of Data and Unbalanced Experiments; Limitations of ANOVA and the General Linear Model (GLM); ; RELATING ONE VARIABLE TO ANOTHER; Correlation; Calculating the Correlation Coefficient, and a New Idea: Covariance; Regression; Linear Regression; The Model; Interpreting Hypothesis Tests in Regression; A Further Example of Linear Regression; Assumptions; The Importance of Plotting Observations; Confidence Intervals; Standard Error of Prediction (Prediction Interval); Caution in the Interpretation of Regression and Correlation; ; CATEGORICAL DATA; The Chi-Squared Goodness-of-Fit Test; A More Interesting Example: Testing Genetic Models; Contingency Analysis: Chi-Squared Test of Proportions; A Further Example of a Chi-Squared Contingency Test; Beyond Two-Dimensional Tables: The Likelihood Ratio Chi-Square; ; NONPARAMETRIC TESTS; Introduction; Basic Ideas; A Taxonomy of Tests; Single-Sample Tests; Matched-Pairs Tests; Independent Samples; Two Quantitative Variables: Spearman's Rank Correlation; Why Bother with Parametric Tests?; ; MANAGING YOUR PROJECT; Choosing a Topic and a Supervisor; Common Mistakes ; General Principles of Experimental Design and Execution; Analyzing Your Data and Writing the Report; Structure; The First Draft; Illustrating Results; What It Is All About: Getting Through Your Project; ; APPENDIX A: AN INTRODUCTION TO MINITAB; Conventions Used in This Book; Starting Up; Help; Data Entry; Looking at the Worms Data; Updating Graphs; Stacking and Unstacking-A Useful Trick; Looking Up Probabilities; Report Writer; The Minitab Command Line; Saving Your Session; ; APPENDIX B: STATISTICAL POWER AND SAMPLE SIZE; ; APPENDIX C: STATISTICAL TABLES; ; APPENDIX D: REFERENCES AND FURTHER READING; ; APPENDIX E: STATISTICAL TESTS; ; INDEX
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Copyright Date: 2007
• Extent: 1 online resource (298 pages), illustrations
• Subjects: 570.1/5195; Biometry; Biometry; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781420011524; 1420011529
• Related ISBNs: 9781584886525
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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