Statistics for the life sciences
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UNIT I: DATA AND DISTRIBUTIONS 1. Introduction 1.1 Statistics and the Life Sciences 1.2 Types of Evidence 1.3 Random Sampling 2. Description of Samples and Populations 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Frequency Distributions 2.3 Descriptive Statistics: Measures of Center 2.4 Boxplots 2.5 Relationships Between Variables 2.6 Measures of Dispersion 2.7 Effect of Transformation of Variables 2.8 Statistical Inference 2.9 Perspective 3. Probability and the Binomial Distribution 3.1 Probability and the Life Sciences 3.2 Introduction to Probability 3.3 Probability Rules (Optional) 3.4 Density Curves 3.5 Random Variables 3.6 The Binomial Distribution 3.7 Fitting a Binomial Distribution to Data (Optional) 4. The Normal Distribution 4.1 Introduction 4.2 The Normal Curves 4.3 Areas under a Normal Curve 4.4 Assessing Normality 4.5 Perspective 5. Sampling Distributions 5.1 Basic Ideas 5.2 The Sample Mean 5.3 Illustration of the Central Limit Theorem 5.4 The Normal Approximation to the Binomial Distribution