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A First Course in Applied Statistics: with Applications in Biology, Business and the Social Sciences

A First Course in Applied Statistics: with Applications in Biology, Business and the Social Sciences


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This first-year applied statistics text is specifically tailored to the needs of biology, business and social science students, and is designed to equip them with the statistical skills and knowledge that will allow them to advance in their chosen discipline. This has been achieved by close consultation with active workers and academics in psychology, ecology, marine biology, business, finance, economics, ecology and environmental science, to make the book relevant to current developments in these disciplines. The book has a strong local flavour with many high-interest examples in such areas as false memory syndrome and cognitive impairment in Parkinson's disease, to emphasise to students the immediate relevance and applicability of this material to the student's major course of study.

Table of Contents:
Contents include: I Summarising data -- 2 Graphical representation and organisation of data -- 3 Summary statistics -- 4 Describing bivariate relationships -- II Introduction to probability -- 5 Working with probabilities -- 6 Proportions and the binomial distribution -- 7 The normal distribution -- III Estimation and testing -- 8 Single population -- 9 Two populations -- 10 Many populations -- 11 Tests for categorical data -- 12 Inference and the regression line -- 13 Review of estimation and testing -- IV Appendices -- A Self-assessment guide and mathematical basics -- B Calculator Use -- C Tables and table use -- D Solutions to selected exercises.

About the Author :
Associate Professor Megan Clark (Bsc(Hons), MSc) is an associate professor in statistics at Victoria University of Wellington. She has worked extensively in statistics for over a decade and has research interests in mathematics education. She has taught first-year applied statistics to natural and social science students for many years and has a body of research in this area to her credit, particularly in the area of contextualising statistics education and the effect on accessibility of the material. She has been awarded a Royal Society Bronze Medal for services to science education and the New Zealand Suffrage Centennial Medal for services to women in education. n 2000 she was a British Council visitor to the UK giving seminars on mathematics education and in 2003 visited the US under a US National Institute of Health federal programme to promote diversity in biomedical research. She is on the Editorial Board of Educational Studies in Mathematics and is a regular referee for the Statistics Education Research Journal. Her first year statistics course won a student award for 'Most Stimulating 100-level Course' in 2002. John Randal (DipFinMath, MSc, PhD) recently finished his PhD in statistics and is a lecturer in econometrics, also at Victoria University. He has spent five years lecturing in first-year courses in statistics, to both business students and those in the biological and social sciences. As a graduate student, he spent many years as a tutor and teaching assistant in first-year statistics courses. This experience at the 'chalk-face', and an in-built interest in education, has led to his teaching in statistics being highly regarded by his classes.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781877258909
  • Publisher: Pearson Education New Zealand
  • Publisher Imprint: Prentice Hall New Zealand
  • Height: 250 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1877258903
  • Publisher Date: 21 Oct 2004
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Sub Title: with Applications in Biology, Business and the Social Sciences


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