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STATISTICS FOR THE LIFE SCIENCES
Fourth Edition
MYRA L. SAMUELS
Purdue University
JEFFREY A. WITMER
Oberlin College
ANDREW A. SCHAFFNER
California Polytechnic State University,San Luis Obispo
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CONTENTS
Preface vii
1 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Statistics and the Life Sciences
1.2 Types of Evidence 7
1.3 Random Sampling 15
2 DESCRIPTION OF SAMPLES AND POPULATIONS 26
2.1
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
2.6
2.7
2.8
2.9
Introduction 26
Frequency Distributions 28
Descriptive Statistics: Measures.of Center 40p ' . !,-:,..::: .. ." .
Boxplots 45 ., : " .. "
Relationships between Variables 52
Measures of Dispersion 59
Effect of Transformation of Variables (Optional) 68
Statistical Inference 73
Perspective 79
3 PROBABILITY AND THE BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION 84
3.1 Probability and the Life Sciences 84
3.2 Introduction to Probability 84
3.3 Probability Rules (Optional) 94
3,4 Density Curves 99
3.5 Random Variables 102
3.6 The Binomial Distribution 107
3.7 Fitting a Binomial Distribution to Data (Optional) 116
4 THE NORMAL DISTRIBUTION 121
4.1 Introduction 121
4.2 The Normal Curves 123
4.3 Areas Under a Normal Curve 125
4.4 Assessing Normality 132
4.5 Perspective 142
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5 SAMPLING DISTRIBUTIONS 145
5.1 Basic Ideas 145
5.2 The Sample Mean 149
5.3 Illustration of the Central Limit Theorem (Optional) 159
5.4 The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution(Optional) 162
5.5 Perspective 167
6 CONFIDENCE INTERVALS 170
6.1 Statistical Estimation 170
6.2 Standard Error of the Mean 171
6.3 Confidence Interval for J.1 177
6.4 Planninga Study to Estimate J.1 187
6.5 Conditions for Val idity of Estimation Methods 190
6.6 ComparingTwo Means 199
6.7 Confidence Interval for (ILL - IL2) 206
6.8 Perspective and Summary 212
7 COMPARISON OF Two INDEPENDENT SAMPLES 218
7.1 Hypothesis Testing: The Randomization Test 218
7.2 Hypothesis Testing: The t Test 223
7.3 Further Discussion of the t Test 234
7.4 Association and Causation 242
7.5 One-Tailed t Tests 250
7.6 More on Interpretation of Statistical Sign ificance 260
7.7 Planningfor Adequate Power (Optional) 267
7.8 Student's t: Conditions and Summary 273
7.9 More on Principles of Testing Hypotheses 277
7.10 The Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney Test 282
7.1 1 Perspective 291
8 COMPARISON OF PAIRED SAMPLES 299
8.1 Introduction 299
8.2 The Paired-Sample t Test and Confidence Interval 300
8.3 The Paired Design 310
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8.4 The Sign Test 315
8.5 The Wilcoxon Signed-Rank Test 321
8.6 Perspective 326
9 CATEGORICAL DATA: ONE-SAMPLE DISTRIBUTIONS 336
9.1 Dichotomous Observations 336
9.2 Confidence Interval for a Population Proportion 341
9.3 Other Confidence levels (Optional) 347
9.4 Inference for Proportions: The Chi-Square Goodness-of-Fit Test 348
9.5 Perspective and Summary 359
10 CATEGORICAL DATA: RELATIONSHIPS 363
10.1 Introduction 363
10.2 The Chi-Square Test for the 2 X 2 Contingency Table 365
10.3 Independence and Association in the 2 X 2 ContingencyTable 373
10.4 Fisher's ExactTest (Optional) 381
10.5 The r X k Contingency Table 385
10.6 Applicability of Methods 391
10.7 Confidence Interval for Difference between Probabilities 395
10.8 Paired Data and 2 X 2 Tables (Optional) 398
10.9 Relative Risk and the Odds Ratio (Optional) 401
10.10 Summary of Chi-Square Test 409
11 COMPARING THE MEANS OF MANY INDEPENDENTSAMPLES 414
I 1.1 Introduction 414
11.2 The Basic One-Way Analysis of Variance 418
11.3 The Analysis of Variance Model 427
11.4 The Global FTest 429
11.5 Applicability of Methods 433
11.6 One-Way Randomized Blocks Design 437
11.7 Two-Way ANOVA 449
11.8 linear Combinations of Means (Optional) 456
11.9 Multiple Comparisons (Optional) 464
I 1.10 Perspective 475
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12 LINEAR REGRESSION AND CORRELATION 480
12.1 Introduction 480
12.2 The Correlation Coefficient 482
12.3 The Fitted Regression Line 492
12.4 Parametric Interpretation of Regression: The Linear Model 505
12.5 Statistical Inference Concerning {31 511
12.6 Guidelines for Interpreting Regression and Correlation 516
12.7 Precision in Prediction (Optional) 527
12.8 Perspective 531
12.9 Summary of Formulas 542
13 A SUMMARY OF INFERENCE METHODS 550
13.1 Introduction 550
13.2 Data Analysis Examples 552
Appendices 566
Chapter Notes 583
Statistical Tables 610
Answers to Selected Exercises 639
Index 647
Index of Examples 655