Statistics for the life sciences / Myra L Samuels, Jeffrey A. Witmer, Andrew A. Schaffner.

Previous edition published in 2012.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover
Title Page
Copyrigth Page
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Unit I Data and Distributions
1 Introduction
1.1 Statistics and the Life Sciences
1.2 Types of Evidence
1.3 Random Sampling
2 Description of Samples and Populations
2.1 Introduction
2.2 Frequency Distributions
2.3 Descriptive Statistics: Measures of Center
2.4 Boxplots
2.5 Relationships between Variables
2.6 Measures of Dispersion
2.7 Effect of Transformation of Variables*
2.8 Statistical Inference
2.9 Perspective
3 Probability and the Binomial Distribution 3.1 Probability and the Life Sciences
3.2 Introduction to Probability
3.3 Probability Rules*
3.4 Density Curves
3.5 Random Variables
3.6 The Binomial Distribution
3.7 Fitting a Binomial Distribution to Data*
4 The Normal Distribution
4.1 Introduction
4.2 The Normal Curves
4.3 Areas under a Normal Curve
4.4 Assessing Normality
4.5 Perspective
5 Sampling Distributions
5.1 Basic Ideas
5.2 The Sample Mean
5.3 Illustration of the Central Limit Theorem*
5.4 The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution*
5.5 Perspective 7.6 More on Interpretation of Statistical Significance
7.7 Planning for Adequate Power*
7.8 Student's t: Conditions and Summary
7.9 More on Principles of Testing Hypotheses
7.10 The Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Test
8 Comparison of Paired Samples
8.1 Introduction
8.2 The Paired-Sample t Test and Confidence Interval
8.3 The Paired Design
8.4 The Sign Test
8.5 The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test
8.6 Perspective
Unit II Highlights and Study
Unit III Inference for Categorical Data
9 Categorical Data: One-Sample Distributions
9.1 Dichotomous Observations 9.2 Confidence Interval for a Population Proportion
9.3 Other Confidence Levels*
9.4 Inference for Proportions: The Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test
9.5 Perspective and Summary
10 Categorical Data: Relationships
10.1 Introduction
10.2 The Chi-Square Test for the 2 X 2 Contingency Table
10.3 Independence and Association in the 2 X 2 Contingency Table
10.4 Fisher's Exact Test*
10.5 The r X k Contingency Table
10.6 Applicability of Methods
10.7 Confidence Interval for Difference Between Probabilities
10.8 Paired Data and 2 X 2 Tables*

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