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Title: Biostatistical Analysis (4th Edition) by Jerrold H. Zar ISBN: 0-13-081542-X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 08 October, 1998 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $94.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (6 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Concise but not beginner friendly
Comment: This book is very concise and very mathemically based. It does a good job at presenting the mathematical models of statistics but it does a lousy job at explaining biostatistics in a conceptual manner. Maybe a great book for those who love mathemical models and notations but definitely not recommended for someone who is trying to understand biostatistics conceptually. If you are a scientist with a weak bacdground in statistics, you may find it a waste of time to try to understand this book.
Rating: 4
Summary: one of the most popular introductory biostatistics books
Comment: This book is popular because it is well written and authoritative. It is written for biologists, medical students and researchers who do not have any prior knowledge of probability or statistics and may have little mathematical training as well. It serves as an introductory text providing many homework exercises. It can also be used as a reference. It is very thorough and covers most of the important topics required for biological problems. The needed probability is introduced when necessary.
There is the usual emphasis on hypothesis testing and regression. Correlation and analysis of variance are also very well covered. Important issues of sample size determination are covered and many solutions are provided in easy to use box descriptions.
As the author points out in the preface, in order to make this text a good reference it is extensive (663 pages of text followed by appendices and a large number of tables). It also includes a wealth of useful reference articles and books. Consequently, there is too much material for a one semester course. The author provides instructors with guidelines for sections to cover in an introductory course.
Notable topics covered in this text that is rarely found in introductory biostatistics books include multivariate methods especially the multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA)and inference for circular data.
Recent developments in meta analysis, Bayesian statistics and bootstrap methods are not covered. In fact, these topics are not covered at all. Also, the important topic of missing data is omitted. Outliers are only covered briefly and just a few references are given but the major references, the texts by Hawkins and the treatise of Barnett and Lewis are neglected.
I am currently working on an elementary text that will have the advantage of some real world applications and modern developments. There are a few other elementary statistical texts for biology that are worth considering including Motulsky's "Intuitive Biostatistics" and Riffenburgh's "Statistics in Medicine". My favorite is the slightly more advanced "Practical Statistics for Medical Research" by Doug Altman.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent reference text on biostatistical analysis
Comment: This book and BIOMETRY by Sokal and Rohlf are the two standard statistics books that live on the shelves of most biological researchers.
Zar makes methods and interpretations of statistical analyses accessible and understandable. There are suffient numbers of statistical tests in the text to cover most of my statistical needs. The book also includes its own tables of critical values (something that BIOMETRY does not -- there's a paperback companion book of tables for that book). Zar also includes examples that are easy to follow, as well as enough mathematical background to allow one to understand the hypothetical and much of the mathematics behind the statistical methods.
I typically turn to Zar first when I have a statistical question. This book continues to be a highly prized ally of mine in the data analysis game.
I highly recommend this book to all biology grad students and researchers. It's well worth the price -- an investment that pays off!
5 stars, no doubt about it.
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Title: Biometry: The Principles and Practice of Statistics in Biological Research by Robert R. Sokal, F. James Rohlf ISBN: 0716724111 Publisher: W H Freeman & Co. Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $101.85 |
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Title: Experimental Design and Data Analysis for Biologists by Gerry P. Quinn, Michael J. Keough ISBN: 0521009766 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: April, 1902 List Price(USD): $48.00 |
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Title: Statistical Tables by F. James Rohlf, Robert R. Sokal ISBN: 071672412X Publisher: W H Freeman & Co. Pub. Date: September, 1994 List Price(USD): $42.50 |
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Title: Ecological Methodology (2nd Edition) by Charles J. Krebs ISBN: 0321021738 Publisher: Pearson Benjamin Cummings Pub. Date: July, 1998 List Price(USD): $113.00 |
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Title: Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments by Samuel M. Scheiner, Jessica Gurevitch ISBN: 0195131886 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: April, 2001 List Price(USD): $45.00 |
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