Sequential Data in Biological Experiments: An introduction for research workers

✍ Scribed by E. A. Roberts (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

There are many excellent books on general statistical methods in agricul­ tural and biological research. These books cover a broad range of methods without going into detail on specialized topics. A number of topics including regression analysis, design of experiments, biological assay and categorical analysis have received in-depth treatment in specialized texts. Little appears in standard textbooks on experiments in which observations form sequences. The live weights of animals during a long-term experiment provide a familiar example of data forming a sequence, but many others occur: for example, moisture content of segments of soil cores, successive counts of insects in an orchard and hormone levels in blood over a period. Correla­ tions are likely to be found among the observations in all these examples. The book by Goldstein (1979) provided the first systematic coverage of the principles involved in longitudinal studies, but is mainly concerned with observational studies on humans. The main aims of this book are to provide research workers with methods of analysing data from comparative experiments with sequential obser­ vations and to demonstrate special features of the design of such experi­ ments. These aims are achieved by working through sets of data.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Introduction....Pages 1-31
A simple factorial grazing experiment measured on 27 occasions....Pages 32-82
A 3 × 3 factorial with quantitative levels....Pages 83-105
Definable within-individual comparisons....Pages 106-126
Covariance....Pages 127-149
Pre-treatment observations in the design of experiments....Pages 150-162
Weighted regression, goodness-of-fit and related topics....Pages 163-172
Environmental variables....Pages 173-194
Correlation between series of random variables....Pages 195-205
Response (reaction) times....Pages 206-218
Back Matter....Pages 219-240

✦ Subjects

Science, general