Author | Jolicoeur, Pierre. author |
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Title | Introduction to Biometry [electronic resource] / by Pierre Jolicoeur |
Imprint | Boston, MA : Springer US : Imprint: Springer, 1999 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4777-8 |
Descript | X, 517 p. online resource |
1 Looking at quantitative biological data through scatter diagrams -- 2 Samples and populations, estimates and parameters -- 3 Frequencies and probabilities -- 4 Measures of central tendency and of dispersion -- 5 The normal distribution -- 6 The distribution of Studentโst -- 7 The distribution of?2(chi squared) -- 8 The distribution of the variance ratio, F = S12/S12 -- 9 Hypotheses and confidence intervals concerning one or two means -- 10 Hypotheses and confidence intervals concerning one variance -- 11 Hypotheses and confidence intervals concerning a variance ratio -- 12 The analysis of variance or โANOVAโ (one-way, type I) -- 13 The skewness and peakedness indicesg1andg2 -- 14 The lognormal distribution -- 15 Testing hypotheses concerning frequency tables using the X2 distribution -- 16 Tests of goodness of fit -- 17 The binomial distribution -- 18 The Poisson distribution -- 19 The bivariate normal distribution and the correlation coefficient, r -- 20 Estimation lines (the so-called โregressionโ lines) -- 21 The analysis of covariance or โANCOVAโ: comparing estimation lines -- 22 The orthogonal estimation line or major axis -- 23 The trivariate normal distribution: partial and multiple correlations and regressions -- 24 Elementary linear calculations (vectors and matrices) -- 25 Partial and multiple correlations and regressions: matrix calculations -- 26 One-way type I analysis of variance with contrasts -- 27 One-way type II analysis of variance with variance components -- 28 Two-way type I analysis of variance with interaction -- 29 The multivariate normal distribution -- 30 The distribution of HotellingโsT2 -- 31 Principal components orprincipal axes -- 32 Fisherโs linear discriminant function -- 33 Multiple discriminant analysis -- 34 Canonical correlations -- 35 Growth curves and other nonlinear relationships -- Appendices -- The statistical tables most frequently used in biometry -- The standardized normal distribution -- The distribution of x (chi squared) -- Detailed table of contents -- Author index