Asking Questions in Biology: A Guide To Hypothesis Testing, Experimental Design and Presentation In Practical Work and Research Projects, 5th edition

Published by Pearson (April 19, 2017) © 2018

  • Chris Barnard University of Nottingham
  • Francis Gilbert University of Nottingham
  • Peter Mcgregor University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Title overview

Hallmark Features

  • A range of boxes within the text highlight key concepts, present worked examples spanning topics from ecology, and behaviour to toxicology and parasitology
  • Coverage of a range of tests including repeated measures designs, analysis of covariance, multiple regression and principal components analysis
  • An easy to use test finder and quick test finder guides
  • A set of useful self test questions and answers
  • Sections on using online literature databases, plagiarism, presenting findings to a non-scientific audience and ethical considerations

Table of contents

  • Preface
  • 1   Doing science:
  • Where do questions come from?
  • 2   Asking questions:
  • The art of framing hypotheses and predictions
  • 3   Answering questions:
  • What do the results say?
  • 4   Presenting information:
  • How to communicate outcomes and conclusions
  • Test finder and help guide
  • Some self-test questions
  • Appendix I: Table of confidence limits to the median
  • Appendix II: How to calculate some simple significance tests
  • Appendix III: Significance tables
  • Appendix IV: The common codes for the important graphical parameters of R
  • Answers to self-test questions
  • Index
  • Quick test finders

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