A Pen and Paper Introduction to Statistics

ISBN-13: 9781032505114 / Twarda / 2023 / 144 str.

U.K.) Marco Antonio (University of Essex

Opis

This book proposes to reverse the way statistics is taught, by starting with the introduction of linear models. Today, many statisticians know that the one unifying principle of statistical tests is that most of them are instances of linear models.

Spis treści

Before we start…  1. What is statistics?  2. Know your samples  3. Estimating populations  4. The design of experiments  5. Comparing two variances  6. One sample  7. Two samples  8. Why squares? (At last!)  9. More than two samples  10. Two-way  11. Regression  12. What if my data is not “normal”?  13. Counting  14. Size, power and effects  15. Before we finish…  16. Statistical tables  17. Solution to exercises

O autorze

Antonio Marco, Ph.D., is Senior Lecturer in the School of Life Sciences at The University of Essex. Dr Marco obtained a degree in Biological Sciences and a doctorate in Genetics from the University of Valencia and has a Graduate Diploma in Mathematics from the University of London (LSE). He has been a lecturer at the University of Essex since 2013, teaching statistics, mathematics, genomics and bioinformatics, and is the course director of the BSc Genetics and the MSc Health Genomics programmes.