Biostatistics for the Biological and Health Sciences /

INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS 1-1 Statistical and Critical Thinking1-2 Types of Data1-3 Collecting Sample Data1-4 Ethics in Statistics (download only)EXPLORING DATA WITH TABLES AND GRAPHS2-1 Frequency Distributions for Organizing and Summarizing Data2-2 Histograms2-3 Graphs That Enlighten and Graphs That Deceive2-4 Scatterplots, Correlation, and Regression DESCRIBING, EXPLORING, AND COMPARING DATA 3-1 Measures of Center3-2 Measures of Variation3-3 Measures of Relative Standing and BoxplotsPROBABILITY 4-1 Basic Concepts of Probability4-2 Addition Rule and Multiplication Rule4-3 Complements, Conditional Probability, and Bayes' Theorem4-4 Risks and Odds4-5 Rates of Mortality, Fertility, and Morbidity4-6 CountingDISCRETE PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS 5-1 Probability Distributions5-2 Binomial Probability Distributions5-3 Poisson Probability DistributionsNORMAL PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS 6-1 The Standard Normal Distribution6-2 Real Applications of Normal Distributions6-3 Sampling Distributions and Estimators6-4 The Central Limit Theorem6-5 Assessing Normality6-6 Normal as Approximation to Binomial (download only)ESTIMATING PARAMETERS AND DETERMINING SAMPLE SIZES 7-1 Estimating a Population Proportion7-2 Estimating a Population Mean7-3 Estimating a Population Standard Deviation or Variance7-4 Bootstrapping: Using Technology for EstimatesHYPOTHESIS TESTING 8-1 Basics of Hypothesis Testing8-2 Testing a Claim About a Proportion8-3 Testing a Claim About a Mean8-4 Testing a Claim About a Standard Deviation or Variance8-5 Resampling: Using Technology for Hypothesis TestingINFERENCES FROM TWO SAMPLES 9-1 Two Proportions9-2 Two Means: Independent Samples9-3 Matched Pairs9-4 Two Variances or Standard Deviations9-5 Resampling: Using Technology for InferencesCORRELATION AND REGRESSION 10-1 Correlation10-2 Regression10-3 Prediction Intervals and Variation10-4 Multiple Regression10-5 Dummy Variables and Logistic RegressionGOODNESS-OF-FIT AND CONTINGENCY TABLES 11-1 Goodness-of-Fit11-2 Contingency TablesANALYSIS OF VARIANCE 12-1 One-Way ANOVA12-2 Two-Way ANOVANONPARAMETRIC TESTS 13-1 Basics of Nonparametric Tests13-2 Sign Test13-3 Wilcoxon Signed-Ranks Test for Matched Pairs13-4 Wilcoxon Rank-Sum Test for Two Independent Samples13-5 Kruskal-Wallis Test for Three or More Samples13-6 Rank CorrelationSURVIVAL ANALYSIS 14-1 Life Tables14-2 Kaplan-Meier Survival Analysis APPENDICES A: Tables and Formulas B: Data Sets C: Websites and Bibliography of Books D: Answers to Odd-Numbered Section Exercises (and all Quick Quizzes, all Review Exercises, and all Cumulative Review Exercises) Subject Index