Introduction to Biostatistics

This popular and critically acclaimed text for undergraduate courses concentrates on the practical applications of statistics to biology. Its straightforward approach offers students with a minimal background in mathematics an accessible introduction to biostatistics. Worked-out examples appear throughout the book illuminating highly relevant examples of solutions to problems in biological data analysis.<br>The treatment progresses from descriptive statistics to fundamental distributions and the testing of elementary statistical hypotheses. It introduces the analysis of variance presenting an in-depth survey that ranges from single-classification to two-way analysis of variance. Additional topics include regression correlation and analysis of frequencies. Numerous tables provide computational methods from initial setup to final result for solving a variety of biostatistical problems.