Asking Questions in Biology

1.   Doing Science: Where do questions come from? 1.1     Science as asking questions 1.2     Basic considerations 1.3     The skill of asking questions 1.4     Where do questions come from? 1.5     What this book is about 2.   Asking Questions: The art of framing hypotheses and predictions 2.1     Observation 2.2     Exploratory analysis 2.3     Forming hypotheses 2.4     Summary 3.   Answering Questions: What do the results say? 3.1     Confirmatory analysis 3.2     What is statistical significance 3.3     Significance tests 3.4     Testing hypotheses 3.5     Testing predictions 3.6     Refining hypotheses 3.7     Summary 4.   Presenting Information: How to communicate outcomes and conclusions 4.1     Presenting figures and tables 4.2     Presenting results in the text 4.3     Writing reports 4.4     Summary Test finder and help guide Some self-test questions Appendix I: Table of confidence limits to the median Appendix II: How to calculate some simple significance tests Appendix III: Significance tables Answers to self-test questions Index Quick test finders

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Chris Barnard, Francis Gilbert, Peter Mcgregor
• Editore: Prentice Hall
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 15.07.2007
• EAN: 9780132224352
• ISBN: 978-0-13-222435-2
• Dimensioni: 190 mm x 245 mm x 13 mm
• Serie: Benjamin Cummin; Benjamin Cummin
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica