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Research Methods for the Biosciences

Aiming to demystify the process of research to equip biosciences students with the skills they need to perform their own investigations, this book leads students through almost all the factors that enable effective research. These include planning your experiment; data collection, analysis, interpr...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: D. Holmes
Other Authors: Peter Moody, Diana Dine
Format: Printed Book
Published: Oxford University Press 2006
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Where do I begin?
  • 2. Experimental design
  • 3. What to do with raw data
  • 4. An introduction to hypothesis testing
  • 5. Hypothesis testing : do my data fit an expected ratio?
  • 6. Hypothesis testing : associations and relationships
  • 7. Hypothesis testing : do my samples come from the same population? : parametric data
  • 8. Hypothesis testing : do my samples come from the same population? : non-parametric data
  • 9. Research, the law, and you
  • 10. Reporting your research.