Quercus: Statistics for Bioscientists; A Student Guidebook

by Moya McCloskey; Steve Blythe; Chris Robertson

• ISBN13: 9780340677681
• ISBN10: 0340677686
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-03-16
• Publisher: Hodder Education Publishers
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Summary

The QUERCUS package is a collection of courseware modules designed to tutor bioscience students in the basic concepts and techniques of statistics. Throughout QUERCUS the highly visual and interactive nature of statistics teaching is emphasized; concepts are illustrated with diagrams, animations and simulations. Student understanding is developed and tested through the use of worked examples, exercises and multiple-choice tests. QUERCUS also provides training in the use of MINITAB for Windows. This book has been designed to provide the student with a framework for using the QUERCUS courseware to maximize its effectiveness as an aid to teaching and learning.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Introduction to QUERCUS: learning about variables

MINITAB basics

Working with data

Graphical presentation

Measuring location

Measuring variability

Putting it all together 1: A worked example of a data analysis project

Sampling theory

Confidence intervals

Significance tests

Putting it all together 2: Confidence intervals and significance tests

Regression

Correlation

Residuals and transformations

Analysis of variance (ANOVA)

Putting it all together 3: Regression and correlation

Appendix: Introduction to probability

Index

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