Asking Questions in Biology

The late Chris Barnard was Professor of Animal Behaviour at Nottingham University. Francis Gilbert is Professor of Ecology at Nottingham University. Peter McGregor is Research Co-ordinator for Science & Natural Environment at Cornwall College.

Preface
1   Doing science:
Where do questions come from?
2   Asking questions:
The art of framing hypotheses and predictions
3   Answering questions:
What do the results say?
4   Presenting information:
How to communicate outcomes and conclusions
Test finder and help guide
Some self-test questions
Appendix I: Table of confidence limits to the median
Appendix II: How to calculate some simple significance tests
Appendix III: Significance tables
Appendix IV: The common codes for the important graphical parameters of R
Answers to self-test questions
Index
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