Statistics for terrified biologists/

Main Author: Van Emden, Helmut Fritz
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, Massachusetts ; Oxford: Blackwell Pulishing, c2008
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Summarizing variation
  • When are sums of squares NOT sums of squares?
  • The normal distribution
  • The relevance of the normal distribution to biological data
  • Further calculations from the normal distribution
  • The t-test
  • One tail or two?
  • Analysis of variance : what is it? how does it work?
  • Experimental designs for analysis of variance
  • Introduction to factorial experiments
  • 2-factor factorial experiments
  • Factorial experiments with more than two factors
  • Factorial experiments with split plots
  • The t-test in the analysis of variance
  • Linear regression and correlation
  • Chi-square tests
  • Nonparametric methods (what are they?)