TY - BOOK AU - Petrie,Aviva AU - Watson,P.F. TI - Statistics for veterinary and animal science SN - 9780470670750 Pbk. Bp. AV - SF 760.S73 P48 2013 CIRC PY - 2013/// CY - West Sussex, United Kingdom : PB - John Wiley & Sons KW - Statistics as Topic KW - methods KW - Veterinary Medicine N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; The whys and wherefores of statistics -- Descriptive statistics -- Probability and probability distributions -- Sampling and sampling distributions -- Experimental design and clinical trials -- An introduction to hypothesis testing -- Hypothesis tests 1 the t-test : comparing one or two means -- Hypothesis tests 2 the F-test : comparing two variances or more than two means -- Hypothesis tests 3 the chi-squared test : comparing proportions -- Linear correlation and regression -- Further regression analyses -- Non-parametric statistical methods -- Further aspects of design and analysis -- Additional techniques -- Some specialized issues and procedures -- Evidence-based veterinary medicine -- Reporting guidelines -- Critical appraisal of reported studies ER -