An Introduction to Statistics with Python With Applications in the Life Sciences

This textbook provides an introduction to the free software Python and its use for statistical data analysis. It covers common statistical tests for continuous, discrete and categorical data, as well as linear regression analysis and topics from survival analysis and Bayesian statistics. Working cod...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Haslwanter, Thomas
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2016, 2016
Edition:1st ed. 2016
Series:Statistics and Computing
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part I: Python and Statistics
  • Why Statistics?
  • Python
  • Data Input
  • Display of Statistical Data
  • Part II: Distributions and Hypothesis Tests
  • Background
  • Distributions of One Variable
  • Hypothesis Tests
  • Tests of Means of Numerical Data
  • Tests on Categorical Data
  • Analysis of Survival Times
  • Part III: Statistical Modelling
  • Linear Regression Models
  • Multivariate Data Analysis
  • Tests on Discrete Data
  • Bayesian Statistics
  • Solutions
  • Glossary
  • Index