Statistics for Veterinary and Animal Science
Blackwell Science Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 1. April 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-632-05025-3 (ISBN)
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Description
Statistics is a subject that many veterinary and other animal science students approach with foreboding, but it is essential for them to grasp the basics in order to understand their subject and play a contributive part in it. This is true whether they be practitioners, research scientists, diagnosticians, or run commercial pathology services, work in research and development of veterinary drugs, or simply care for healthy animals in performance and production. The increasing need to keep up with the literature and to evaluate the competitive promotions for animal systems and health products requires that students have a sound foundation in biological statistics applied to animal care. The emergence of new diseases requires that risk factors associated with them are carefully evaluated. This introductory book will lead the reader through the basics and form a bridge to more complicated statistical procedures found in advanced texts. Written in a non-mathematical way, it contains numerous worked examples helping the reader to develop understanding of the procedures rather than simply the mechanical abilities to perform them.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
58
Dimensions
Height: 246 mm
Width: 189 mm
Weight
952 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-632-05025-3 (9780632050253)
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Statistics for Veterinary and Animal Science
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Content
The whys and wherefores of statistics; Descriptive statistics; Probability and probability distributions; Sampling and sampling distributions; Experimental design and clinical trials; An introduction to hypothesis testing; Hypothesis tests 1 - the t-test comparing one or two means; Hypothesis test 2 - the F-test comparing two variances or more than two means; Hypothesis tests 3 - the chi-squared test: comparing proportions; Linear correlation and regression; Non-parametric statistical tests; Further aspects of design and analysis; Additional topics; Solutions to exercises; References; Appendices; Index