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Quantitative Zoology : Revised Edition (Dover Books on Biology, Psychology, and Medicine)
Quantitative Zoology Revised Edition - Dover Books on Biology, Psychology, and Medicine Author:George Gaylord Simpson, Anne Roe, Richard C. Lewontin This classic work focuses on the gathering, handling, and interpretation of numerical data from zoological investigations. Its simple exposition features numerous examples, and it requires no knowledge of statistics or calculus, just a familiarity with elementary algebra and simple logarithms. Contents include types and properties of numerical d... more »ata, mensuration, frequency distributions and grouping, patterns of frequency distributions, measures of central tendency, measures of dispersion and variability, populations and samples, and probability and probability distributions. Additional topics cover confidence intervals, comparisons of samples, correlation and regression, the analysis of variance, tests on frequencies, graphic methods, and growth. 1960 ed.« less