Practical Statistics for Environmental and Biological Scientists (eBook)

John Townend (Autor)

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2012
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-118-30756-4 (ISBN)

Infos

All students and researchers in environmental and biological sciences require statistical methods at some stage of their work. Many have a preconception that statistics are difficult and unpleasant and find that the textbooks available are difficult to understand. Practical Statistics for Environmental and Biological Scientists provides a concise, user-friendly, non-technical introduction to statistics. The book covers planning and designing an experiment, how to analyse and present data, and the limitations and assumptions of each statistical method. The text does not refer to a specific computer package but descriptions of how to carry out the tests and interpret the results are based on the approaches used by most of the commonly used packages, e.g. Excel, MINITAB and SPSS. Formulae are kept to a minimum and relevant examples are included throughout the text.

Autor

John Townend is the author of Practical Statistics for Environmental and Biological Scientists, published by Wiley.

Inhalt

Preface

Part I STATISTICS BASICS

Introduction

A Brief Tutorial on Statistics

Before You Start

Designing an Experiment or Survey

Exploratory Data Analysis and Data Presentation

Common Assumptions or Requirements of Data for Statistical Tests

Part II STATISTICAL METHODS

t-tests and F-tests

Analysis of Variance

Correlation and Regression

Mulitvariate ANOVA

Repeated Measures

Chi-square Tests

Non-parametric Tests

Principal Component Analysis

Cluster Analysis

Appendices

Bibliography

Index

Rezensionen

"The reassuring tone and straightforward approach of the book would
be a useful guide..." (Biochemistry and Molecular
Education, July/August 2002)

"...covers the basics of designing an experiment/survey, data
analysis and presentation, and specific methods." (SciTech Book
News, Vol. 26, No. 2, June 2002)

"...a good and clear exposition of basic statistical
techniques..." (Biometrics, December 2002)

"...This no-nonsense approach to elementary statistics
should get you or your student started..." (European Journal of
Soil Science, March 2003)

"...This book provides a concise, userfriendly,
non-technical introduction to statistics". (Metrohm Information,
Vol.32, No.1, 2003)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.1.2012
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Statistik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Technik
• Schlagworte: accessible • Basics • Biologie • Biowissenschaften • Book • commonly • concise • Data • First • Introduction • Life Sciences • Methods • nontechnical • Part • Practical • presentation • Principles • Range • Researchers • scientists • Statistical • Statistical Methods • Statistics • Statistik • Style • two • Umweltwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 1-118-30756-9 / 1118307569
• ISBN-13: 978-1-118-30756-4 / 9781118307564