Debbie Holmes (Senior Lecturer, Genetics, Senior Lecturer, Genetics, Peter Moody (Senior Lecturer, Computing, Senior Lecturer, Computing, Diana Dine (Senior Lecturer, Environmental Science, Senior Lecturer

Research Methods for the Biosciences

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Research Methods for the Biosciences is the perfect resource for students wishing to develop the crucial skills needed for designing, carrying out, and reporting research, with examples throughout the text drawn from real undergraduate projects.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• 3 Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 488
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 248mm x 189mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 1068g
• ISBN-13: 9780198728498
• ISBN-10: 0198728492
• Artikelnr.: 45508439

Autorenporträt

Debbie Holmes, Diana Dine, Peter Moody, and Laurence Trueman are all senior lecturers in the Department of Applied Sciences, Geography and Archaeology at the University of Worcester. Between them, the authors have wide experience of teaching across a broad range of biological and environmental science-based subject areas, and developing web-based resources to support their undergraduate teaching.

Inhaltsangabe

* Planning your experiment
* 1: Where do I begin?
* 2: Planning your experiment
* 3: Questionnaires, focus groups, and interviews
* 4: Research, the law, and you
* Handling your data
* 5: What to do with raw data
* 6: An introduction to hypothesis testing
* 7: Which statistical test should I choose?
* 8: Hypothesis testing: do my data fit an expected ratio?
* 9: Hypothesis testing: associations and relationships
* 10: Hypothesis testing: do my samples come from the same population?
Parametric data
* 11: Hypothesis testing: do my samples come from the same population?
Non-parametric data
* Reporting your results
* 12: Reporting your research