Click to have a closer look
About this book
Contents
Related titles
About this book
Mathematically gentle introduction to experimental design emphasizing the principles and limitations of the standard statistical procedures.
Contents
Natural variation and types of data; studying and summarizing data graphically; numerical summaries of data; populations, samples and inferences; probability, the binomial and geometric distributions; randomness and the Poisson distribution; the normal distribution as a model for continuous data; significance tests for means - normal and student's t; confidence intervals for means; non-parametric tests for relocation; tests and estimates for variances; tests using the chi-squared distribution; correlation between two variable; fitting straight lines - linear regression; the principles of experimental design - the completely randomized design; randomized blocks and the precision of results; simple factorial experiments; missing observations and non-normality; a guide to choosing a significance test.
Customer Reviews