Experimental design for the life sciences /
Graeme D. Ruxton, Nick Colegrave.
- 3rd ed.
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, c2011.
- xvii, 178 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Previous ed.: 2006.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Why you should care about design -- 2.Starting with a well-defined hypothesis -- 3.Between-individual variation, replication, and sampling -- 4.Different experimental designs -- 5.Taking measurements -- 6.Final thoughts.
Providing students with clear and practical advice on how best to organise experiments and collect data so as to make the subsequent analysis easier and their conclusions more robust, this text assumes no specialist knowledge.
Life sciences--Experiments Experimental design. Science. Biology, life sciences Probability & statistics Agriculture & farming Scientific equipment, experiments & techniques Sports training & coaching Human biology Research methods: general