Statistical And Data Handling Skills in Biology, 4th edition

Published by Pearson (9 January 2018) © 2018

  • Roland Ennos University of Hull
  • Magnus Johnson University of Hull
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The ability to expertly analyse statistical data is a crucial skill in the biological sciences – it is fundamental to fully understanding what your experiments are actually telling you.

Statistical and Data Handling Skills in Biology gives you everything you need to master the key skills of statistical analysis. Written in a straight-forward and easy to understand style it presents all of the tests you will need throughout your studies, and shows you how to select the right tests to get the most out of your experiments. All of this is done in the context of biological examples so you can see just how relevant a skill this is, and how becoming fully proficient will make you a more rounded scientist.

Table of contents

  1. 1 An introduction to statistics
  2. 2 Dealing with variability
  3. 3 Testing for normality and transforming data
  4. 3.7 Self-assessment problems 4 Testing for differences from an expected value or between two groups
  5. 5 Testing for differences between more than two groups: ANOVA and its non-parametric equivalents
  6. 6 Investigating relationships
  7. 7 Dealing with categorical data
  8. 8 Designing experiments
  9. 9 More complex statistical analysis
  10. 10 Presenting and writing about statistics

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