This book is meant to serve as a companion textbook and reference for students and scientists. The way it is written helps to dispel fear of statistics with which non-mathematicians are usually lumbered. The carefully selected material, along with examples by hand and computer solutions, offer a particularly good lead to follow. The book is divided into twelve chapters and covers topics from basic to advanced, helping users to decide which statistical analyses to choose for their data and to reach sensible conclusions. The book presents innovative methodologies such as: standard error for the median, leaf-to-stem sampling for epidemiological studies, sampling for cellular studies, the confidence interval as a test of significance, the least significant difference (LSD) test for many groups comparison, meta-analysis, and the confidence limits in calculation of cut-off values. It is hoped that users of all levels and fields will be satisfied with the contents and presentation.The book was previously self-published under the title of General, Biological and Biomedical Statistics.
Professor Waleed K. Al-Murrani holds a Bachelor of Veterinary Medicine & Surgery from Baghdad University, Iraq, and a PhD in Quantitative and Population Genetics and Biostatistics from Edinburgh University (1973), the UK. In a career spanning more than 45 years, he supervised and trained many students at bachelor, diploma, MSc and PhD levels. His publishing profile, mainly in genetics of growth and disease resistance, exceeds 100 publications in international and regional peer-reviewed journals. He served as Technical Advisor for the Arab Organization for Agricultural Development (AOAD), and a consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organisation and the International Service for National Agricultural Research in the Netherlands. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (UK). He has authored and translated books, worked as editor in many scientific journals, and is an accredited member of the Iraqi Translators' Association. Al-Murrani holds 1st Class Iraqi Scientist Awards, is listed in Who's Who in the World since 2007 and, since 2008, in the Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century published by the International Biographical Centre, Cambridge.
