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Biostatistics and Microbiology: A Survival Manual
D S Paulson
Springer
January 2009
Softcover 216 pp ISBN 9780387772813
£50.00
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Biostatistics and Microbiology enables the reader to access and apply statistical methods
that generally frustrate and intimidate the uninitiated. Statistics, like chemistry, microbiology,
woodworking, or sewing, requires that the individual put some time into learning the concepts and methods.
This book presents a step-by-step manner that eliminates the greatest obstacle to the learner, which is
applying the many processes that comprise a statistical method. The author counters the fear of statistical
methods by describing early in the book a step-by-step procedure to perform a statistical method -
a process that we will term "the six-step procedure." All of the testing will be performed adhering
to six well-defined steps, which will greatly simplify the statistical process. Each step in the sequence
must be completed before moving on to the next step.
In the context of microbiology, statistics can be
extremely useful in making interpretations and decisions concerning collected data. Statistics,
then, is a way of formally communicating the interpretation of clinical or experimental data and is
particularly important when a treatment result is not clearly differentiable from another treatment.
Written for researchers, scientists, professionals, clinicians, physicians, graduate students, microbiologists,
immunologists, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, medical researchers, medical students, and others in
the microbiology/medical field who need to use statistics but have no specialized mathematics background
Contents
- BioStatistics and Microbiology: Introduction.
- One Sample Tests.
- Two Sample Statistical Tests, Normal Distribution.
- Analysis of Variance.
- Regression and Correlation Analysis.
- Qualitative Data Analysis.
- Nonparametric Statistical Methods.
- Appendix: Tables of Mathematical Values.
- Index.
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