Alan Grafen (, Professor of Theoretical Biology, University of Oxfo, Rosie S. Hails (, Principal Scientific Officer, NERC Centre for Eco

Modern Statistics for the Life Sciences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Teaching statistics in a different way, this book provides several methods of model formulae and the General Linear Model. It is aimed at undergraduate students in the life sciences, and also for many graduate students.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 172mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780199252312
• ISBN-10: 0199252319
• Artikelnr.: 14945051

Autorenporträt

Degrees in Experimental Psychology, Economics and Zoology have exposed Professor Alan Grafen to various different statistical traditions, and also to his main research interest in how adaptive complexity arises through natural selection. He has been interested in statistics since he was an undergraduate, learned mathematical theory of statistics as a graduate student, and encountered modern statistics in the package GLIM as a research student. The impetus to produce a systematic introduction for undergraduates to model formulae and the General Linear Model came from his appointment in 1989 to a lectureship in Quantitative Biology at Oxford University. Degrees in Zoology, Pest Management and Population Dynamics led Dr Rosie Hails toward the more quantitative areas of ecology. Most of her research career has developed the theme of the potential impacts of biological invasions, with reference to both natural invasions and genetically modified organisms. In the early 1990s, she was involved in the first experiments monitoring the behaviour and population dynamics of transgenic plants in natural habitats across the UK with Professor Mick Crawley. More recently, at the NERC Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in Oxford, her research themes have included the dynamics of wildlife diseases as well as plants. In moving to Oxford, Dr Hails became involved in teaching Professor Alan Grafen's undergraduate course, principally through a position at St Anne's College.

Inhaltsangabe

Why use this book
1: An introduction to the analysis of variance
2: Regression
3: Models, parameters and GLMs
4: Using more than one explanatory variable
5: Designing experiments - keeping it simple
6: Combining continuous and categorical variables
7: Interactions - getting more complex
8: Checking the models A: Independence
9: Checking the models B: The other three assumptions
10: Model selection I: Principles of model choice and designed experiments
11: Model selection II: Data sets with several explanatory variables
12: Random effects
13: Categorical data
14: What lies beyond?
Answers to exercises
Revision section: The basics
Appendix I: The meaning of p-values and confidence intervals
Appendix II: Analytical results about variances of sample means
Appendix III: Probability distributions
Bibliography

Rezensionen

'The book is well laid out and concepts are very well explained by making effective use of diagrams and geometric representations. There are many analyses of example data sets to ilustrate the application the methods and the interpretation of the output'. Biometrics 59, 200-209, March 2003.