This remarkably engaging text gives biology students an introduction to statistics. Based on a growing interest in statistics across the life science fields, The Practice of Statistics in the Life Sciences was developed from David Moore's The Basic Practice of Statistics and emphasizes statistical thinking and real data using up-to-date examples. Contents
1. Picturing Distributions with Graphs 2. Describing Distributions with Numbers 3. Scatterplots and Correlation 4. Regression 5. Two-Way Tables 6. Exploring Data: Part I Review 7. Samples and Observational Studies 8. Designing Experiments 9. Introducing Probability 10. General Rules of Probability 11. The Normal Distributions 12. Discrete Probability Distributions 13. Sampling Distributions 14. Introduction to Inference 15. Inference in Practice 16. From Exploration to Inference: Part II Review 17. Inference about a Population Mean 18. Comparing Two Means 19. Inference about a Population Proportion 20. Comparing Two Proportions 21. The Chi-Square Test for Goodness of Fit 22. The Chi-Square Test for Two-Way Tables 23. Inference for Regression 24. One-Way Analysis of Variance: Comparing Several Means 25. Inference: Part III Review Optional Companion Chapters (available at www.whfreeman.com/psls3e) 26. More about Analysis of Variance: Follow-up Tests and Two-Way ANOVA 27. Nonparametric Tests 28. Multiple Regression