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Statistics for Biologists

This book has grown from nine hours oflectures, and about the same time in tutorial classes, that attempt to give first-year students of biology some understanding of statistics. I am convinced that such a short course should not be mathematical (though it can employ basic mathematical symbolism), a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Finney, D. J.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 1980.
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Online Access:SpringerLink - Full text online
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Problems, data, questions
  • 2. Probability and other definitions
  • 3. Combining probabilities
  • 4. Significance, binomials, and x2
  • 5. Continuous variates
  • 6. Inference on means ; the Normal distribution
  • 7. Unknown variance; the t-distribution
  • 8. Design of experiments
  • 9. Comparisons between means
  • 10. Additional topics
  • Solutions to exercises.