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008			110422s2011 nyua b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2011013003
020			_a9780199543199 (pbk.)
040			_aDLC _cDLC _erda
050	0	0	_aQ180.55.S7 _bD54 2011
082	0	0	_a519.5 _222 _bD.P.S
100	1		_aDiggle, Peter _933492
245	1	0	_aStatistics and scientific method : _ban introduction for students and researchers / _cPeter J. Diggle and Amanda G. Chetwynd.
260			_aNew York : _bOxford University Press, _c2011.
300			_axiii, 172 p., [2] p. of plates : : _bill., (some col.) ; _c25 cm.
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	8		_aMachine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Overview -- 3. Uncertainty -- 4. Exploratory data analysis -- 5. Experimental design -- 6. Simple comparative experiments -- 7. Statistical modelling -- 8. Survival analysis -- 9. Time series analysis -- 10. Spatial statistics.
520			_a"Most introductory statistics text-books are written either in a highly mathematical style for an intended readership of mathematics undergraduate students, or in a recipe-book style for an intended audience of non-mathematically inclined undergraduate or postgraduate students, typically in a single discipline; hence, "statistics for biologists", "statistics for psychologists", and so on. An antidote to technique-oriented service courses, Statistics and Scientific Method is different. It studiously avoids the recipe-book style and keeps algebraic details of specific statistical methods to the minimum extent necessary to understand the underlying concepts. Instead, the text aims to give the reader a clear understanding of how core statistical ideas of experimental design, modelling and data analysis are integral to the scientific method. Aimed primarily at beginning postgraduate students across a range of scientific disciplines (albeit with a bias towards the biological, environmental and health sciences), it therefore assumes some maturity of understanding of scientific method, but does not require any prior knowledge of statistics, or any mathematical knowledge beyond basic algebra and a willingness to come to terms with mathematical notation. Any statistical analysis of a realistically sized data-set requires the use of specially written computer software. An Appendix introduces the reader to our open-source software of choice, R, whilst the book's web-page includes downloadable data and R code that enables the reader to reproduce all of the analyses in the book and, with easy modifications, to adapt the code to analyse their own data if they wish. However, the book is not intended to be a textbook on statistical computing, and all of the material in the book can be understood without using either R or any other computer software"--
650		0	_aScience _xMethodology.
650		0	_aResearch _xStatistical methods.
650		0	_aExperimental design.
650		7	_aMATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / Bayesian Analysis.
650		7	_aMEDICAL / Biostatistics.
700	1		_aChetwynd, Amanda.
942			_cBK _2ddc