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Abstract The third edition of this book contains 23 chapters that discuss the design and application of appropriate experimental designs and statistical methods in animal production studies. Each chapter begins by introducing a problem with practical questions, followed with a brief theoretical background and short proofs. The first five chapters of the book provide a basic introduction to biostatistics, including definitions of terms, coverage of descriptive statistics and graphical presentation of data, the basic rules of probability, methods of parameter estimation and descriptions of distributions which are used later in analysing data. Chapter 6 describes hypothesis testing and includes explanations of the null and alternate hypotheses, use of probability or density functions, critical values, critical regions and P values. Chapters 7 to 10 present the topics of correlation and regression. The coverage begins with simple linear regression and describes the model, its parameters and its assumptions. Least squares and maximum likelihood methods of parameter estimation are shown. The concept of partitioning the total variance to explained and unexplained sources is introduced. In

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Author

Kaps, Miroslav, Lamberson, William R.

Publisher

CAB International

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9781786390370

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Agriculture, Science, Biostatistics