
Asking Questions in Biology PXE eBook
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Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 Doing science: Where do questions come from?
- 1.1 Science as asking questions
- 1.2 Basic considerations
- 1.3 The skill of asking questions
- 1.4 Where do questions come from?
- 1.5 What this book is about
- References
- 2 Asking questions: The art of framing hypotheses and predictions
- 2.1 Observation
- 2.2 Exploratory analysis
- 2.3 Forming hypotheses
- 2.4 Summary
- References
- 3 Answering questions: What do the results say?
- 3.1 Confirmatory analysis
- 3.2 What is statistical significance?
- 3.3 Significance tests
- 3.4 Testing hypotheses
- 3.5 Testing predictions
- 3.6 Refining hypotheses and predictions
- 3.7 Summary
- References
- 4 Presenting information: How to communicate outcomes and conclusions
- 4.1 Presenting figures and tables
- 4.2 Presenting results in the text
- 4.3 Writing reports
- 4.4 Writing for a more general readership
- 4.5 Presenting in person: spoken papers and poster presentations
- 4.6 Plagiarism
- 4.7 Summary
- Reference
- Test finder and help guide
- Some self-test questions
- Appendix I: Table of confidence limits to the median
- Appendix II: How to calculate some simple significance tests
- Appendix III: Significance tables
- Appendix IV: The common codes for the important graphical parameters of R
- Answers to self-test questions
- Index
- Quick test finders
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