Publisher's Synopsis
This text aims to enable students to execute elementary statistical analyses and interpret the results. It uses real data from biology, health sciences, pharmacy and agricculture. It explains descriptive statistics, inferential statistics and basic design using, the language of the life scientist.;A discussion of the relation of the random-sampling model to real biological investigations illustrates how the sample population construct can be applied to biological data. Students are introduced to the pitfalls of data dredging and the advantages of focused analysis in a chapter on multiple inference. Linear combinations in ANOVA are discussed to introduce students to concepts of statistical adjustment and interaction and a thorough discussion of sampling distributions helps students to grasp the basic ideas of inference.
