Statistics for Veterinary and Animal Science
Second edition
by Aviva Petrie

Statistics for Veterinary and Animal Science now in its second edition and with an accompanying CD, provides the reader with the necessary information to handle numerical data and critically appraise the statistical methodology in the literature in the fields of veterinary and animal science.

Written in a non-mathematical way with an emphasis on assimilating underlying concepts and correctly interpreting computer output, it contains numerous worked real examples to help the reader develop an understanding of the procedures.

Revised and updated throughout, this new edition of Statistics for Veterinary and Animal Science

• is now accompanied by a CD containing the datasets used in the examples so that the user can work through the procedures
• assumes no prior knowledge of statistics
• features learning objectives and exercises in every chapter to evaluate progress in understanding
• includes helpful flowcharts to provide a guide to the correct analysis of data
• contains glossaries of notation and terminology which act as ready reference indicates the more advanced sections that can be skipped initially without loss of continuity
• includes a new chapter in which the fundamental importance of statistics to the practice of evidence-based veterinary medicine is clearly demonstrated and explained
• incorporates new material on regression methods such as Poisson regression, regression models for clustered data, Cox proportional hazards regression models for survival data and generalized linear models

Contents

1. The whys and wherefores of statistics
2. Descriptive statistics
3. Probability and probability distributions
4. Sampling and sampling distributions
5. Expeirmental design and clinical trials
6. An introduction to hypothesis testing
7. Hypothesis tests 1 - the t-test: comparing one or two means
8. Hypothesis tests 2 - the F-test: comparing two variances or more than two means
9. Hypothesis tests 3 - the Chi-squared test: comparing proportions
10. Linear correlation and regression
11. Further regression analyses
12. Non-parametric statistical methods
13. Further aspects of design and analysis
14. Additional techniques
15. Evaluation and reporting - evidence-based veterinary medicine and the CONSORT Statement

Solutions to exercises

Appendices

• Statistical tables
• Tables of confidence intervals
• Glossary of terms
• Flow charts for selection of appropriate tests

Index

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