The analysis of biological data /
Michael C. Whitlock and Dolph Schluter.
- Second edition.
- xxxiii, 818 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 725-746) and index.
Statistics and samples -- Displaying data -- Describing data -- Estimating with uncertainty -- Probability -- Hypothesis testing -- Analyzing proportions -- Fitting probability models to frequency data -- Contingency analysis : associations between categorical variables -- The normal distributions -- Inference for a normal population -- Comparing two means -- Handling violations of assumptions -- Designing experiments -- Comparing means of more than two groups -- Correlation between numerical variables -- Regression -- Multiple explanatory variables -- Computer-intensive methods -- Likelihood -- Meta-analysis : combining information from multiple studies.