Experimental Design and Data Analysis for Biologists

An essential textbook for any student or researcher in biology needing to design experiments, sampling programs or analyze the resulting data. Both univariate and multivariate statistics are covered, and special emphasis is placed on checking assumptions, exploratory data analysis and presentation of results. The main analyses are illustrated with many examples from published papers and there is an extensive reference list to both the statistical and biological literature. The book is supported by a web-site that provides all data sets, questions for each chapter and links to software.