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About this book
This book has grown from nine hours oflectures, and about the same time in tutorial classes, that attempt to give first-year students of biology some understanding of statistics. I am convinced that such a short course should not be mathematical (though it can employ basic mathematical symbolism), and that it should give students an appreciation of statistical argument, even though this limits the amount of detailed instruction in techniques of analysis that can be included. A statistical cookery book would have been easier to write and much easier to read, but lacking in true educational content. I am more concerned to show 'why' than to present methods and rules. A further constraint, that of remaining within a reasonable price range, prevents reiteration of explanations: the reader is expected to remember what he has read, for he will not find standard terms and ideas explained afresh on each occasion of use. Many books that introduce statistics to biologists blur distinctions and evade logical issues, for example by failing to emphasize the distinction between a parameter and an estimator from a sample or by neglecting the role of randomization. On this, I aim to be un compromisingly correct - at least until reviewers point out my errors - but to do so through realistic examples rather than abstract symbolism.
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Book Title: Statistics for Biologists
Authors: D. J. Finney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-5855-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: D. J. Finney 1980
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-412-21540-7Published: 30 October 1980
eBook ISBN: 978-94-009-5855-5Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 166
Topics: Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary