Practical Statistics for Field Biology

Jim Fowler, Lou Cohen, Phil Jarvis (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

272 Seiten

1998 | 2nd Revised edition
John Wiley & Sons Ltd (Verlag)
9780471982951 (ISBN)

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This expanded edition aims to provide biologists with sufficient grounding in statistical principles and methods to enable them to understand research reports in journals, decide on the most appropriate statistical tests for their own problems and finally to analyze and present their findings.

This text aims to provide biologists with sufficient grounding in statistical principles and methods to enable them to understand research reports in journals, decide on the most appropriate statistical tests for their own problems and finally to analyze and present their findings. This new edition also covers some more complicated statistics not included in the first edition. A major new chapter on "Multivariate Analysis" introduces the nature of multivariate problems and describes techniques of principal components analysis, cluster analysis and discriminant analysis which are all applied to biological examples.

Measurement and sampling concepts; processing data; presenting data; measuring the average; measuring variability; probability; probability distributions as models of dispersion; the normal distribution; data transformation; how good are our estimates?; the basis of statistical testing; analyzing frequencies; measuring correlations; regression analysis; comparing averages; analysis of variance - ANOVA; multivariate analysis.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.5.1998
Überarbeitung	Phil Jarvis
Zusatzinfo	bibliography
Verlagsort	Chichester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 250 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
ISBN-13	9780471982951 / 9780471982951
Zustand	Neuware