| Reviews |
| - 'Biomeasurement really is a 'top notch' text on statistics for Biologists. I wish it had been written before I planned my own course!' - Mark Winterbottom, Journal of Biological Education, Vol 40, No 2, Spring 2006
- 'A "must purchase" for biologists interested in statistics. Oh, that I had had the benefit of being taught by Dawn Hawkins!' - Basil Jarvis, Biologist Vol 52 No 3
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| Description | | - Avoids detailed explantions of the mathematical basis of statistics, but focuses on the application of statistics as a valuable research tool. The student is left in no doubt as to the relevance and importance of statistics to their studies
- Emphasis is placed on explantion so that students are guided through the key concepts and techniques in a steady, progressive way
- Use of real data sets enables students to build confidence in handling actual data
- 'Literature Links' illustrate the use of the techniques presented in real world research work, highlighting the importance of statistics in 'real' science
- Online Resource Centre features a range of interactive resources, using both Excel and SPSS, to encourage students to familiarise themselves with, and build confidence in the use of, a range of statistical tests including copies of the primary literature articles cited in the text to give students immediate free access to this material
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Statistical analysis allows us to attach meaning to data which we have collected; it helps us to understand what results really mean, and to assess whether we can trust what experiments seem to be telling us. Yet, despite being a collection of the most valuable and important tools available to bioscientists, statistics is the aspect of study which most students fear more than any other.
Biomeasurement
offers a refreshing, student-focused introduction to the use of statistics in the study of the biosciences. With an emphasis on why statistical techniques are essential tools for bioscientists, the book removes the stigma attached to statistics by giving students the confidence to use and further explore the key techniques for themselves.
The book starts by placing the
role of data analysis in the context of wider scientific method, and introduces the student to the key terms and concepts which are common to all statistical tools. It then guides the student through descriptive statistics, and on to inferential statistics, explaining how and why each type of technique is used, and what each can tell us in order to better understand our data. The book goes on to
present nine key statistical tests, walking the student step-wise through the use of each, with carefully integrated examples, and plentiful opportunities for hands-on practice. Finally, an overview of choosing the right test to suit your data, and tools for presenting data and their statistical analyses, is given.
Whatever their preconceptions regarding statistics, Biomeasurement
will be
sure to engage even the most wary of students, demonstrating the power and importance of statistics throughout the study of bioscience.
Online Resource Centre
Features a range of interactive resources, using both Excel and SPSS, to encourage students to familiarise themselves with, and build confidence in the use of, a range of statistical tests including copies of the primary literature
articles cited in the text to give students immediate free access to this material
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Readership: All undergraduate students studying a bioscience degree. Also a useful primer for beginning graduate students.
| Contents |
1.
Why Am I Reading This Book?
2.
Getting To Grips With The Basics
3.
Describing A Single Sample
4.
Inferring And Estimating
5.
Introduction To Statistical Hypothesis Testing
6.
Tests On Frequencies
7.
Tests Of Differences: Two Unrelated Samples
8.
Tests Of Differences: Two Related Samples
9.
Tests Of Differences: More Than Two Samples
10.
Tests of Relationship: Regression
11.
Tests of Relationship: Correlation
12.
Choosing The Right Test And Chart
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Dawn Hawkins, Senior Lecturer, School of Life Sciences, Anglia Polytechnic University
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