John E. Havel , Raymond E. Hampton , Scott J. A thorough understanding of biology, no matter which subfield, requires a thorough understanding of statistics. As in previous editions, Havel and Hampton with new co-author Scott Meiners ground students in all essential methods of descriptive and inferential statistics, using examples from different biological sciences. The authors have retained the readable, accessible writing style popular with both students and instructors.
Pedagogical improvements new to this edition include concept checks in all chapters to assist students in active learning and code samples showing how to solve many of the book's examples using R. R is a free statistical programming language, useable on Windows, Mac, or Linux computers, that is becoming increasingly popular among serious users of statistics. Mangiafico's book provides example programs for nearly all of the statistical tests I describe in the Handbook, plus useful notes on getting started in R.
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You can also download a free pdf of the print version. The pdf has page numbers and a table of contents, so it may be a little easier to use than individually printed web pages. McDonald, J. Handbook of Biological Statistics, 3rd ed. Sparky House Publishing, Baltimore, Maryland. It's better to cite the print version, rather than the web pages, so that people of the future can see exactly what you were looking at. If you just cite a web page, it might be quite different by the time someone looks at it a few years from now.
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