By Robert R. Sokal, F. James Rohlf

This renowned and seriously acclaimed textual content for undergraduate classes concentrates at the useful purposes of records to biology. Its ordinary method deals scholars with a minimum history in arithmetic an available creation to biostatistics. Worked-out examples seem in the course of the booklet, illuminating hugely correct examples of options to difficulties in organic info analysis.
The therapy progresses from descriptive data to basic distributions and the trying out of uncomplicated statistical hypotheses. It introduces the research of variance, offering an in-depth survey that levels from single-classification to two-way research of variance. extra subject matters contain regression, correlation, and research of frequencies. a number of tables offer computational equipment, from preliminary setup to outcome, for fixing a number of biostatistical problems.

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