Biostatistical Analysis (5th Edition) by Jerrold H.

Zar

Extremely Helpful, Well-Written & Very Readable, Good Coverage Of Basics

Zars Biostatistical Analysis, Fifth Edition, is the ideal book for readers who seek practical coverage of statistical analysis methods used by researchers to collect, summarize, analyze, and draw conclusions from biological research. The latest edition of this best-selling textbook is both comprehensive and easy to read. It is suitable as an introduction for beginning students and as a comprehensive procedural reference for todays practitioners.

Introduction; Populations and Samples; Measures of Central Tendency; Measures of Dispersion and Variability; Probabilities; The Normal Distribution; One-Sample Hypotheses; Two-Sample Hypotheses; PairedSample Hypotheses; Multisample Hypotheses: The Analysis of Variance; Multiple Comparisons; Two-Factor Analysis of Variance; Data

Transformations; Multiway Factorial Analysis of Variance; Nested (Hierarchical) Analysis of Variance; Multivariate Analysis of Variance; Simple Linear Regression; Comparing Simple Linear Regression Equations; Simple Linear Correlation; Multiple Regression and Correlation; Polynomial Regression; Testing for Goodness of Fit; Contingency Tables; More on Dichotomous Variables; Testing for Randomness; Circular Distributions: Descriptive Statistics; Circular Distributions: Hypothesis Testing

For all readers interested in biostatistics.

Personal Review: Biostatistical Analysis (5th Edition) by Jerrold H. Zar

As a working biologist with little formal mathematical training (and NO statistics training) I was looking for a text that had everything I needed to know about a statistical test--when to use it, when not to use it and how to use it. Zar fits the bill perfectly. I particularly appreciate that for each test he provides real world examples and then works the test out completely. Even when I've had difficulty understanding a test at first (with the ANOVA, for example), I was able to follow the example and convince myself that I had really grasped it. Another reviewer mentioned the "pencil and paper" aspect of Zar as a negative, but I disagree. I love SPSS as much as the next person and I use it all the time, but my understanding of what test to use when and what that test is really doing come from Zar. A fantastic book!
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