Statistics for the life sciences

✍ Scribed by Samuels, Myra L.;Schaffner, Andrew A.;Witmer, Jeffrey A

• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 668
• Edition: 4th ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Statistics for the Life Sciences, Fourth Edition, is the perfect book for introductory statistics classes, covering the key concepts of statistics as applied to the life sciences, while incorporating the tools and themes of modern data analysis. This text uses an abundance of real data in the exercises and examples to minimize computation, so that students can focus on the statistical concepts and issues, not the mathematics. Basic algebra is assumed as a prerequisite. ¿ This latest edition is also available as an enhanced Pearson eText. This exciting new version features an embedded versio.

✦ Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Description of Samples and Populations3. Probability, and the Binomial Distribution4. The Normal Distribution5. Sampling Distributions6. Confidence Intervals7. Comparison of Two Independent Samples8. Comparison of Paired Samples9: Categorical Data: One-Sample Distributions10. Categorical Data: Relationships11. Comparing the Means of Many Independent Samples12. Linear Regression and Correlation13. A Summary of Inference Methods

✦ Subjects

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