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Choosing and Using Statistics: A Biologist’s Guide

Journal of Ecology · 1999 · Vol. 87(4) · pp. 734–735

Abstract

Preface.1. Eight steps to successful data analysis.2. The basics.3. Choosing a test: a key.4. Hypothesis testing, sampling and experimental design.5. Statistics, variables and distributions.6. Descriptive and presentational techniques.7. The tests 1: tests to look at differences.8. The tests 2: tests to look at relationships.9. The tests 3: tests for data exploration.10. Symbols and letters used in statistics.11. Assumption of the tests.12. Hints and tips.Glossary.Bibliography and short reviews of selected texts.Index.

Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Biomedical Research Statistical Methods and ApplicationsStatisticsPresentational and representational actingDescriptive statisticsGlossaryStatistical hypothesis testingIndex (typography)Sampling (signal processing)Computer scienceMathematicsLinguistics

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