Biostatistics (Second Edition)

Author: Li Chunxi
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Publish Date: 2001-06-01
Features: This book is easy to understand, with a certain depth and breadth, suitable for life science, agricultural science, and medical workers. It can also be used as a teaching material for biological majors in colleges and universities. The book systematically introduces the basic principles and methods of biostatistics. Based on a brief description of the origin, development, research objects, and functions of biostatistics, as well as the organization and calculation of characteristic numbers in biological research, probability and probability distribution, and sampling distribution, it focuses on introducing statistical inference of means, chi-square test, analysis of variance, linear regression and correlation analysis, linearizable nonlinear regression analysis, covariance analysis, multiple regression and multiple correlation analysis, and polynomial regression analysis. It also provides detailed descriptions of sampling principles and methods, common experimental designs, and their statistical analysis. On the basis of the above content, it briefly introduces multivariate analysis such as cluster analysis, discriminant analysis, principal component analysis, factor analysis, canonical correlation, and time series analysis.