Statistics for Veterinary and Animal Science
Statistics for Veterinary and Animal Science
Editor/Author
Petrie, Aviva and Watson, Paul
Publication Year: 2013
Publisher: Wiley
Single-User Purchase Price:
$63.99

Unlimited-User Purchase Price:
$95.98
ISBN: 978-0-47-067075-0
Category: Animals & Veterinary Medicine
Image Count:
92
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
This book will enable you to handle numerical data and critically appraise the veterinary and animal science literature. Written in a non-mathematical way, the emphasis is on understanding the underlying concepts and correctly interpreting computer output, and not on working through mathematical formulae.
Table of Contents
- Preface to third edition
- Preface to second edition
- Preface to first edition
- About the companion website
- 1 The whys and wherefores of statistics
- 2 Descriptive statistics
- 3 Probability and probability distributions
- 4 Sampling and sampling distributions
- 5 Experimental design and clinical trials
- 6 An introduction to hypothesis testing
- 7 Hypothesis tests 1 – the t-test: comparing one or two means
- 8 Hypothesis tests 2 – the F-test: comparing two variances or more than two means
- 9 Hypothesis tests 3 – the Chi-squared test: comparing proportions
- 10 Linear correlation and regression
- 11 Further regression analyses
- 13 Further aspects of design and analysis
- 14 Additional techniques
- 15 Some specialized issues and procedures
- 16 Evidence-based veterinary medicine
- 17 Reporting guidelines
- 18 Critical appraisal of reported studies
- Solutions to exercises
- Appendices
- A Statistical tables
- B Tables of confidence intervals
- C Glossary of notation
- D Glossary of terms
- E Flowcharts for selection of appropriate tests
- References