title: Biostatistics: Experimental Design and Statistical Inference
author:  James F. Zolman 
description: "Excellent discussion of experimental design and statistical inference. Includes good examples."--Thomas Fairchild, University of New Hampshire, Durham<br /><br />"Well-written! Covers the material I want to cover."--Jane Keller-Byrne, Medical College of Ohio<br /><br />"Novel in its presentation of the material."--Edward Meydrech, University of Mississippi Medical Center<br /><br />"Very useful for the Ph.D. students in our school, in particular in their qualifying phase of doctoral studies."--Jerrold Michael, University of Hawaii<br /><br />"As healthcare research assumes a renewed importance in this country, Zolman's text provides solid guidance through the concepts and methodologies to make students better researchers and consumers of research."--Roger Ritvo, University of New Hampshire<br /><br />"Well-written! Good examples for the students in the biological sciences."--Beverly Vilicer, University of Massachusetts<br /><br />"Good discussion of basic concepts in methodology and statistics. The section on design problems and critique is especially good."--David Katerndahl, University of Texas<br /><br />"An interesting and fresh approach--definitely fills a need in the literature."--Paul Jones, Case Western Reserve University<br /><br />"The book has many strong points, including the outstanding collection of well-presented, real examples." --Choice<br /><br />"Here is a book for experimental biologists who design and interpret their own experiments as well as critically evaluate articles and papers in their field....Has some good features. There is much to be learned from the research design problems....The figures, tables, and flow charts in the<br />first part of the book are helpful and great for reference....The intended audience of experimental biologists will gain much from this book." --Journal of the American Statistical Association
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  2
  MOHAMMED A. SHAYIB
  DESCRIPTIVE 
  STATISTICS – THE BASICS 
  FOR BIOSTATISTICS
  VOLUME I
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  3
  Descriptive Statistics – The Basics for Biostatistics: Volume I
  1st edition
  © 2018 Mohammed A. Shayib & bookboon.com
  ISBN 978-87-403-2125-8
  Peer review by Prof. Heather Gamber Ph.D., Lone Star College, USA
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  DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS –  
  THE BASICS FOR BIOSTATISTICS: VOLUME I
  Contents
  4
  CONTENTS
   
  Preface 
  8
  1 
  Describing Data Graphically 
  10
  1.1 
  Introduction 
  10
  1.2 
  Data Types and Collection 
  13
  1.3 
  Descriptive Statistics 
  14
  1.4 
  Frequency Distributions 
  15
  1.5 
  Graphical Presentation  
  19
  1.6 
  Summation Notation  
  29
  1.7 
  Methods of Counting  
  32
  2 
   Organizing And Summarizing Quantitative Data  
  50
  2.1 
  Introduction 
  50
  2.2 
   Numerical Methods for Summarizing Quantitative Data 
  50
  2.3 
   Some Properties of the Numerical Measures of Quantitative Data 
  63
  2.4 
  Measures of Position for Quantitative Data 
  65
  2.5 
  Description 