Statistics For Veterinary And Animal Science - Couverture souple

Petrie, Aviva

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 063205025X ISBN 13 : 9780632050253

Editeur : Blackwell Science Ltd, 1999

Synopsis

Statistics is a subject that many veterinary and other animal science students approach with foreboding, but it is essential for them to grasp the basics in order to understand their subject and play a contributive part in it. This is true whether they be practitioners, research scientists, diagnosticians, or run commercial pathology services, work in research and development of veterinary drugs, or simply care for healthy animals in performance and production. The increasing need to keep up with the literature and to evaluate the competitive promotions for animal systems and health products requires that students have a sound foundation in biological statistics applied to animal care. The emergence of new diseases requires that risk factors associated with them are carefully evaluated. This introductory book will lead the reader through the basics and form a bridge to more complicated statistical procedures found in advanced texts. Written in a non-mathematical way, it contains numerous worked examples helping the reader to develop understanding of the procedures rather than simply the mechanical abilities to perform them.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Interpreting statistical information and carrying out statistical procedures is an integral part of veterinary and animal science. This successful textbook, 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.

Specifically written for veterinary science and animal science students, researchers and practitioners for whom no other suitable text exists.

Revue de presse

The authors have succeeded admirably in the objective to provide an introductory statistics text, including basic concepts appropriate for "the complete novice in statistics".
Doody Enterprises, US 2006

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Blackwell Science Ltd
• Date d'édition: 1999
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 063205025X
• ISBN 13: 9780632050253
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible