Applied Statistics
Statistical Methods for Research Workers
- Author: R.A. Fisher
- Publication data: Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1925 (1st edition); London: Macmillan, 1970 (15th edition)
- Online version: http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Fisher/Methods/
- Description: The original manual for researchers, especially biologists, on how to statistically evaluate numerical data.
- Importance: Hugely influential text by the father of modern statistics that remained in print for more than 50 years. Responsible for the widespread use of tests of statistical significance.
Statistical Methods
- Author: George W. Snedecor
- Publication data: 1937, Collegiate Press
- Description: One of the first comprehensive texts on statistical methods. Reissued as Statistical Methods Applied to Experiments in Agriculture and Biology in 1940 and then again as Statistical Methods with Cochran, WG in 1967. A classic text.
- Importance: Influence
Principles and Procedures of Statistics with Special Reference to the Biological Sciences.
- Authors: Steel, R.G.D, and Torrie, J. H.
- Publication data: McGraw Hill (1960) 481 pages
- Description: Excellent introductory text for analysis of variance (one-way, multi-way, factorial, split-plot, and unbalanced designs). Also analysis of co-variance, multiple and partial regression and correlation, non-linear regression, and non-parametric analyses. This book was written before computer programmes were available, so it gives the detail needed to make the calculations manually.Cited in more than 1,381 publications between 1961 and 1975.
- Importance: Influence
Biometry: The Principles and Practices of Statistics in Biological Research
- Authors: Robert R. Sokal; F. J. Rohlf
- Publication data: 1st ed. W. H. Freemann (1969),; 2nd ed. W. H. Freemann (1981); 3rd ed. Freeman & Co. (1994)
- Description: Key textbook on Biometry: the application of statistical methods for descriptive, experimental, and analytical study of biological phenomena.
- Importance Cited in more than 7,000 publications.
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