Knowledge Of Statistics Is Essential In Modern Biology And Medicine. Biologists And Health Professionals Learn Statistics Best With Real And Interesting Examples. The Analysis Of Biological Data, Second Edition, By Whitlock And Schluter, Teaches Modern Methods Of Statistics Through The Use Of Fascinating Biological And Medical Cases. Readers Consistently Praise Its Clear And Engaging Writing And Practical Perspective. The Second Edition Features Over 200 New Examples And Problems. These Include New Calculation Practice Problems, Which Guide The Student Step By Step Through The Methods, And A Greater Number Of The Examples And Topics Come From Medical And Human Health Research. Every Chapter Has Been Carefully Edited For Even Greater Clarity And Ease Of Use. Statistics And Samples -- Displaying Data -- Describing Data -- Estimating With Uncertainty -- Probability -- Hypothesis Testing -- Analyzing Proportions -- Fitting Probability Models To Frequency Data -- Contingency Analysis : Associations Between Categorical Variables -- The Normal Distributions -- Inference For A Normal Population -- Comparing Two Means -- Handling Violations Of Assumptions -- Designing Experiments -- Comparing Means Of More Than Two Groups -- Correlation Between Numerical Variables -- Regression -- Multiple Explanatory Variables -- Computer-intensive Methods -- Likelihood -- Meta-analysis : Combining Information From Multiple Studies. Michael C. Whitlock And Dolph Schluter. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.Categories: Science & Math Biological Sciences BiologyBiostatistics
