Basics

• Introduction
• Kinds of biological variables
• Probability
• Hypothesis testing
• Random sampling
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Tests for attribute variables

• Exact binomial test
• Power analysis
• Chi-square test of goodness-of-fit
• G-test of goodness-of-fit
• Randomization test of goodness-of-fit
• Chi-square test of independence
• G-test of independence
• Fisher's exact test
• Small numbers in chi-square and G-tests
• Repeated G-tests of goodness-of-fit
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Descriptive statistics

• Central tendency
• Dispersion
• Standard error
• Confidence limits
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Tests for one measurement variable

• Student's t-test
• Introduction to one-way anova
• Model I vs. Model II anova
• Testing homogeneity of means
• Planned comparisons among means
• Unplanned comparisons among means
• Estimating added variance components
• Normality
• Homoscedasticity
• Data transformations
• Kruskal-Wallis test
• Nested anova
• Two-way anova
• Paired comparisons
• Wilcoxon's signed rank test
• Sign test
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Tests for multiple measurement variables

• Linear regression and correlation
• Spearman's rank correlation
• Polynomial regression
• Analysis of covariance
• Multiple regression
• Simple logistic regression
• Multiple logistic regression
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Multiple tests

• Multiple comparisons
• Meta-analysis
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Miscellany

• Choosing the right test
• Using spreadsheets for statistics
• Displaying results in graphs: Excel
• Displaying results in graphs: Calc
• Introduction to SAS

Correlation

The information from this page has been moved to the correlation and regression web page.

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This page was last revised November 7, 2007. Its URL is http://udel.edu/~mcdonald/statcorrelation.html