Designed as a first course in statistics for students in biology and geology, this book gives a practical introduction to using the fundamental parametric statistical models frequently used in those disciplines. The focus is on analyzing data, but it retains a firm basis in models, the likelihood methods, and numeracy. The author illustrates how calculations are performed using the SAS software package, but his presentation extends easily to other software. The SAS programs and data used in examples and exercises are available for download from the Internet. Provides a practical introduction...

The present set of notes grew out of our interest in the study of statistical transformation models, in particular exponential transfor- mation models. The latter class comprises as special cases all fully tractable models for mUltivariate normal observations. The theory of decomposition and invariance of measures provides essential tools for the study of transformation models. While the major aspects of that theory are treated in a number of mathematical monographs, mostly as part of much broader contexts, we have found no single account in the literature which is sufficiently comprehensive...