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Paperback: 264 pages
Publisher: WileyBlackwell; 2nd Edition edition (3 Jan 2003)
Language English
ISBN-10: 1405102438
ISBN-13: 978-1405102438
Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 17 x 1.5 cm

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" A student affordable recommended purchase with no equation in sight!" Microbiology Today, Feb 2000

"It would be an interesting experiment (with appropriate statistical tests of course), to see how often a lab copy was used by researchers and academic staff. I suspect it would be rather frequently and with good reason!" Biologist Vol 46 No 4

"In summary, an excellent text with a refreshing viewpoint." TecNews, May 1999

"A valuable handbook for all biologists completing statistical analysis." Sherkin Comment, October 2000

"The first edition of this excellent handbook was extremely well received by both students and lecturers alike. It has helped to simplify the often complex and difficult task of choosing and using the right statistics package. This is a book for any student or professional biologist who wants to process data using a statistical package on the computer, to select appropriate methods and extract the important information from the often confusing output that is produced...The new edition has been updated to cover the very latest versions of the computer packages described, expanded to include coverage for logistic regression, a more detailed considration of multivariate analysis, data exploration and further examples of Principle Component Analysis and Discriminate Function Analysis are given." Ethology, Ecology and Evolution, Volume 15, No 3, September 2003

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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended., 27 Nov 2003

By	Oliver A. H. Jones "purple_saxifrage" (Cambridge, UK) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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I became interested in this book when I was an undergraduate because all the PhD students were using it for their work. I soon found out why. More and more science departments across the land are requiring their undergraduates to learn statistics and as a result more and more books on the subject are appearing. This book raises itself from the pack by explain the basic concepts of statistics very well and relating them with useful examples. Consequently it is extremely handy for Biologists like myself who lack a background in mathematics but have to use it all the time to help justify results.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great 'Biologist-proof' guide!, 4 Dec 2001

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Absolutely agree with the review above - This was recomended by Plymouth Uni as the top 'Must Have' book for all things stats.
More detail (if that's your thing!) can be found elswhere, but this book tied all those lectures and other reference books together as to why something is used when it is.

Thank you Mr Dytham!

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4.0 out of 5 stars The statistics mystery resolved in one little book., 15 May 2001

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The check list at the start helps you to decide which test is right to use, something that has always been a problem for non-statisticians. The book then easily takes you through the steps necessary for completing the test, but also, the best bit, it tells you how to do it on a number of stats computer programmes, which if you have access to, saves you gallons of time- fantastic- statistics was a mystery until finding this book.

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