Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Step by step practical guide with Statistics (from ANOVA to survival analysis) in Biological Sciences: Or: Help, how can I analyze my “damned” scientific data correctly and in an easy way with free R!
    Step by step practical guide with Statistics (from ANOVA to survival analysis) in Biological Sciences: Or: Help, how can I analyze my “damned” scientific data correctly and in an easy way with free R!
    Step by step practical guide with Statistics (from ANOVA to survival analysis) in Biological Sciences: Or: Help, how can I analyze my “damned” scientific data correctly and in an easy way with free R!
    Ebook100 pages44 minutes

    Step by step practical guide with Statistics (from ANOVA to survival analysis) in Biological Sciences: Or: Help, how can I analyze my “damned” scientific data correctly and in an easy way with free R!

    By Boran Altincicek

    3/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    Many scientists and students are asking for advice in statistical analyses during preparation of their publications or theses. This book aims to address these needs by representing a “recipe book” for statistical analysis in biological sciences. More importantly, limited knowledge in statistical thinking affects both the quality of the experimental design and the outcome of research projects. The content of this book will enable everyone to perform high-quality statistical analyses and to produce publication-quality graphics with no additional costs using R. R is at least as good (and often better) as many expensive statistical software solutions for statistical computing. It runs on all important platforms and provides a wide array of specialized modules and utilities for diverse needs.

    To use this book the reader does not need to be an expert in statistics. Just copy and paste the syntax of commands and apply them on your own specific data set. The secret in understanding statistics is to perform multiple analyses on diverse data sets to get a better knowledge of the different models.

    What’s inside?
    You will find a book introducing into scientific researching with practical step by step examples in data analysis and in visualizing data using R.

    Dr. Boran Altincicek is a researcher with a lot of experience in research and has a broad knowledge in biological sciences. He has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at diverse Universities around the world and contributed to numerous publications in international peer-reviewed journals.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBoran Altincicek
    Release dateSep 15, 2013
    ISBN9781301217069
    Step by step practical guide with Statistics (from ANOVA to survival analysis) in Biological Sciences: Or: Help, how can I analyze my “damned” scientific data correctly and in an easy way with free R!
    Author

    Boran Altincicek

    Dr. rer. nat. habil. Boran Altincicek has been graduated from the University of Gießen in Germany. During preparing his Ph.D. thesis in Biology, he and his colleagues co-founded a biotech research spin-off company (Jomaa Pharmaka GmbH). Multidisciplinary research in host-pathogen-interactions and immunology, writing of patents and scientific publications were part of his work. After two years as Post-doc at the Institute of Biochemistry in Gießen, he took the opportunity to lead a research group and to investigate molecular adaptation of diverse insects to pathogens and the phenotypic plasticity and evolution of the insect immunity at the Institute of Phytopathology and Applied Zoology. Self-dependent teaching, own third-party funding, and numerous publications in international scientific journals resulted in his German “Habilitation” in the year 2009. Then, funded by the German Research Foundation-DFG with the Heisenberg fellowship in Zoology, he got the opportunity to work on insect ecology and evolution as a Visiting Scientist and Lecturer with Professor Nicole Gerardo at the Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA. Prior to his current working as freelancer and consultant in Lilongwe Malawi (Africa) he was “Privatdozent” (equivalent to Assoc. Professor) in Zoology and Ecology at the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Bonn, Germany.

    Related to Step by step practical guide with Statistics (from ANOVA to survival analysis) in Biological Sciences

    Related ebooks

    Biology For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Statistical evidence: Part 1

      Oct 5, 2023

      Statistical evidence: Part 1
      3 min read

    • Article

      Widely Used Algorithm For Follow-up Care In Hospitals Is Racially Biased, Study Finds

      Oct 24, 2019

      Researchers have found that a common algorithm used by hospitals often classified white patients overall as being more ill than black patients — even when they were just as sick.

      4 min read

    • Article

      Science Is Becoming Less Human

      Dec 11, 2023

      This summer, a pill intended to treat a chronic, incurable lung disease entered mid-phase human trials. Previous studies have demonstrated that the drug is safe to swallow, although whether it will improve symptoms of the painful fibrosis that it tar

      8 min read

    • Article

      Family History In The AI Era

      Apr 12, 2024

      Family History In The AI Era
      7 min read

    • Article

      Opinion: Solving The Fake News Problem In Science

      Dec 13, 2018

      Thousands of research papers are published each year. Citations are a poor way to gauge their scientific rigor. AI and a network of human experts can do the job.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Automating Creativity: Using AI as a Creative Engine

      Jan 1, 2024

      AN ASTONISHING CHANGE is occurring in the landscape of human creativity: there is now evidence that AI can help make us more innovative — if we use it properly. The core irony of generative AIs like ChatGPT and Bing is that they were supposed to be a

      6 min read

    • Article

      Opinion: Advancing AI In Health Care: It’s All About Trust

      Oct 23, 2019

      In drug trials, success in Phase 1 is no guarantee of success in Phase 3. In the current mania for AI and deep learning, a proof of concept is taken…

      4 min read

    • Article

      Opinion: AI Will Revolutionize Drug Discovery — But Only If Experts Are Involved

      Nov 1, 2019

      To fruitfully apply AI to drug discovery, we need better feedback loops between developers and interdisciplinary teams that test the technology.

      4 min read

    • Article

      AI Will Never Think Like A Human… And That’s Okay

      Jun 8, 2022

      DR KATE DARLING (@grok_) Kate is a researcher at MIT, where she investigates technology and society, and studies human-robot interaction. Since the start of the pandemic, AI developers have deployed hundreds of machine learning tools to help diagnose

      3 min read

    • Article

      Life Science

      Jun 27, 2023

      Life Science
      6 min read

    • Article

      The Human Factor

      Mar 31, 2019

      The Human Factor
      10 min read

    • Article

      Building Superintelligence Is Riskier Than Russian Roulette

      Aug 2, 2023

      Every day there seems to be a new headline: Yet another scientific luminary warns about how recklessly fast companies are creating more and more advanced forms of AI, and the great dangers this tech poses to humanity. We share many of the concerns pe

      7 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Step by step practical guide with Statistics (from ANOVA to survival analysis) in Biological Sciences

    3/5

    1 rating0 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

      Book preview

      Step by step practical guide with Statistics (from ANOVA to survival analysis) in Biological Sciences - Boran Altincicek

      Step by step practical guide with Statistics (from ANOVA to survival analysis) in Biological Sciences:

      Or: Help, how can I analyze my damned scientific data correctly and in an easy way with free R!

      Boran Altincicek

      Smashwords Edition

      Copyright 2013 Boran Altincicek

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes.

      *****

      ____________________________________________________________

      Content

      ____________________________________________________________

      Chapter

      Introduction into scientific working and why we need statistics

      Using R as tool for statistical analysis

      How can we perform a proper statistical analysis of a biological data set in an easy way?

      First: What is your scientific question?

      Second: Draw a hypothesis that you can test!

      Third: Get your data!

      Forth: Examine your data!

      Fifth: Summarize and plot your data!

      Sixth: Build a statistical model!

      Student’s T-test (t.test)

      Correlation test (cor.test)

      ANOVA (aov) and linear regression model (lm)

      Generalized Linear Models (glm)

      Linear Mixed Effect Models (lme)

      Survival analysis (coxph)

      Predictions with statistical models

      Preface:

      Many scientists as well as students ask frequently for help in statistical analysis. Therefore, I decided to write this practical helping book in statistics. The book aims to be a recipe book for students dealing with their Bachelor, Master or PhD theses or persons and scientists interested in data analysis in general. Limited knowledge in statistical thinking directly affects the quality of their experimental design and research outcome. The content of this book will help to perform high-quality statistical analyses of scientific data with no additional costs. For this the reader does not need to be an expert in statistics. Just copy and paste the syntax of commands in this book and apply them on your own specific data set. This will further help to understand statistics in more detail. The secret is to perform many analyses on multiple data sets to get a feeling for the different statistical models. The first part of this book will be helpful for all readers. The second part is dealing with some more advanced models that may be of interest only for a fraction of readers depending on the nature of their data.

      About the author: Dr. rer. nat. habil. Boran Altincicek has been graduated from the University of Gießen in Germany. During preparing his Ph.D. thesis in Biology, he and his colleagues co-founded a biotech research spin-off company (Jomaa Pharmaka GmbH). Multidisciplinary research in host-pathogen-interactions and immunology, writing of patents and scientific publications were part of his work. After two years as Post-doc at the Institute of Biochemistry in Gießen, he took the opportunity to lead a research group and to investigate molecular adaptation of diverse insects to pathogens and the phenotypic plasticity and evolution of the insect immunity at the Institute of Phytopathology and Applied Zoology. Self-dependent teaching, own third-party funding, and numerous publications in international scientific journals resulted in his German Habilitation in the year 2009. Then, funded by the German Research Foundation-DFG with the Heisenberg fellowship in Zoology, he got the opportunity to work on insect ecology and evolution as a Visiting Scientist and Lecturer with Professor Nicole Gerardo at the Emory University in Atlanta, GA, USA. Prior to his current working as freelancer and consultant in Lilongwe, Malawi (Africa) he was Privatdozent (equivalent to Assoc. Professor) in Zoology and Ecology at the Agricultural Faculty of the University of Bonn, Germany.

      I want to thank Katja Altincicek for the cover photo and for critical reading and helpful comments.

      Licence notes: This ebook is licensed for your personal use only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you

      Enjoying the preview?
      Page 1 of 1