Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Variability and frequency distributions
- 3 Estimation, standard errors and confidence limits
- 4 The basic idea of a significance test
- 5 Simple significance tests based on the normal distribution
- 6 The use of t-tests for small samples
- 7 Contingency tables and χ2
- 8 χ2-tests of goodness-of-fit and homogeneity
- 9 The correlation of measurements
- 10 Regression analysis
- 11 Simple experimental design and the analysis of variance
- 12 Introduction to factorial experiments
- 13 Random samples and random numbers
- 14 Partial correlation and multiple regression
- 15 Non-parametric and distribution-free tests
- 16 Notes on numerical calculation, calculators and computers
- Suggestions for more advanced reading
- Summary of statistical formulae
- Appendix tables
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Variability and frequency distributions
- 3 Estimation, standard errors and confidence limits
- 4 The basic idea of a significance test
- 5 Simple significance tests based on the normal distribution
- 6 The use of t-tests for small samples
- 7 Contingency tables and χ2
- 8 χ2-tests of goodness-of-fit and homogeneity
- 9 The correlation of measurements
- 10 Regression analysis
- 11 Simple experimental design and the analysis of variance
- 12 Introduction to factorial experiments
- 13 Random samples and random numbers
- 14 Partial correlation and multiple regression
- 15 Non-parametric and distribution-free tests
- 16 Notes on numerical calculation, calculators and computers
- Suggestions for more advanced reading
- Summary of statistical formulae
- Appendix tables
- Index
Summary
The first five appendix tables have been mainly abridged from Tables I, III, IV, V and VI of Fisher and Yates' Statistical Tables for Biological, Agricultural and Medical Research, published by Oliver and Boyd Limited, Edinburgh, by permission of the authors and publishers. Some additional material has also been incorporated from Tables 12 and 18 of Biometrika Tables for Statisticians, Vol. I, by permission of the Biometrika Trustees. The sixth appendix table, originally by Professor John W. Tukey, has been taken directly from the Ciba-Geigy Scientific Tables (7th edn.), by permission of the author and publishers. Finally, the seventh appendix table adapted from Kendall, Rank Correlation Methods (4th edn.), 1970, has been reproduced by permission of the publishers, Charles Griffin and Company Ltd. of London and High Wycombe.
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- Statistical Methods in Biology , pp. 242 - 251Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995