Statistics for Veterinary and Animal Science, Second Edition
Book Features
- Author: Aviva Petrie
- Language: English
- ISBN10: 1405127813
Book Overview
>>>Interpreting statistical info and carrying out statistical procedures is an integral portion of veterinary and animal science. This successful textbook, now in its second edition and with an accompanying CD, supplies the reader with the essential information to deal with numerical information and critically appraise the statistical methodology in the literature in the fields of veterinary and animal science. Written in a non-mathematical way with an emphasis on assimilating underlying ideas and accurately interpreting laptop or computer output, it is made up of quite a few worked real examples to aid the reader build an understanding of the procedures.
Revised and updated all through, this new edition of Statistics for Veterinary and Animal Science
* is now accompanied by a CD containing the datasets utilised in the examples so that the user can work via the procedures
* assumes no prior knowledge of statistics
* characteristics finding out objectives and work outs in each chapter to evaluate progress in understanding
* incorporates helpful flowcharts to present a manual to the correct analysis of information
* contains glossaries of notation and terminology which act as ready reference
* indicates the more advanced sections that can be skipped initially without having loss of continuity
* incorporates a new chapter in which the basic value of statistics to the practice of evidence-primarily based veterinary medicine is clearly demonstrated and explained
* incorporates new material on regression strategies such as Poisson regression, regression models for clustered information, Cox proportional hazards regression models for survival data and generalized linear models.
Specifically written for veterinary s…
Finally stats for my tiny brain…,
First stats book that I have read that gives me what I need in minutes. It also explains the concepts and functions that I use everyday in a manner understandable for most earthlings.
Thank you.
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|Almost Makes Stats Not Suck, but Not Quite,
I am a graduate student/veterinary resident taking a statistics course. This book is not required for my class, but “recommended,” meaning that the instructor more or less follows this book for our…
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