This popular and critically acclaimed text for undergraduate courses
concentrates on the practical applications of statistics to biology. Its
straightforward approach offers students with a minimal background in
mathematics an accessible introduction to biostatistics. Worked-out
examples appear throughout the book, illuminating highly relevant
examples of solutions to problems in biological data analysis.
The treatment progresses from descriptive statistics to fundamental
distributions and the testing of elementary statistical hypotheses. It
introduces the analysis of variance, presenting an in-depth survey that
ranges from single-classification to two-way analysis of variance.
Additional topics include regression, correlation, and analysis of
frequencies. Numerous tables provide computational methods, from initial
setup to final result, for solving a variety of biostatistical problems.