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- BookAviva Petrie, Paul Watson.Summary: An introductory text for the complete novice in statistics, starting with very basic concepts. It enables students to handle numerical data and critically appraise the statistical methodology in veterinary and animal science literature.
Contents:
The whys and wherefores of statistics
Descriptive statistics
Probability and probability distributions
Sampling and sampling distributions
Experimental design and clinical trials
An introduction to hypothesis testing
Hypothesis tests 1 the t-test : comparing one or two means
Hypothesis tests 2 the F-test : comparing two variances or more than two means
Hypothesis tests 3 the chi-squared test : comparing proportions
Linear correlation and regression
Further regression analyses
Non-parametric statistical methods
Further aspects of design and analysis
Additional techniques
Some specialized issues and procedures
Evidence-based veterinary medicine
Reporting guidelines
Critical appraisal of reported studies.