Introductory Statistical Methods for Biological, Health and Social Sciences

John Harraway

This book will be particularly useful to those specialising in psychology, zoology, botany, ecology, geography, physical education, nutrition, pharmacy and other health sciences. The purpose of this book is four-fold: to present the essential introductory statistical methodology in a succinct manner; to discuss design implications including issues related to confounding, bias and observational studies versus planned experiments; to explain, without formal mathematic proof, the assumptions necessary for various tests to be used; and to extend introductory methodology to the analysis of variance, including repeated measures analyses, to a much greater degree than in other introductory texts. This book has grown out of John Harraway's previous volume, Introductory Statistical Methods and the Analysis of Variance. A companion book, Regression Methods Applied, develops the ideas of regression modelling including logistic regression and log linear modelling.

About the author

John Harraway is senior lecturer in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He has recently completed a four-year period as Chief Examiner in Bursary Statistics of the New Zealand Qualifications Authority.