There are many books which set out the more commonly used statistical methods in a form suitable for applications. There are also widely available computer packages for implementing these techniques in a relatively painless way. We have in the present book concentrated not so much on the techniques themselves but rather on the general issues involved in their fruitful application. The book is in two parts, the first dealing with general ideas and principles and the second with a range of examples, all, however, involving fairly small sets of data and fairly standard techniques. Readers who have experience of the application of statistical methods may want to concentrate on the first part, using the second part, and better still their own experience, to illuminate and criticize the general ideas. If the book is used by students with little or no experience of applications, a selection of examples from the second part of the book should be studied first, any general principles being introduced at a later stage when at least some background for their understanding is available. Content: Front Matter....Pages i-viii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Nature and objectives of statistical analysis....Pages 3-13 Some general concepts....Pages 14-19 Some strategical aspects....Pages 20-27 Some types of statistical procedure....Pages 28-50 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Admissions to intensive care unit....Pages 53-57 Intervals between adjacent births....Pages 58-62 Statistical aspects of literary style....Pages 63-67 Temperature distribution in a chemical reactor....Pages 68-71 A ‘before and after’ study of blood pressure....Pages 72-76 Comparison of industrial processes in the presence of trend....Pages 77-80 Cost of construction of nuclear power plants....Pages 81-90 Effect of process and purity index on fault occurrence....Pages 91-94 Growth of bones from chick embryos....Pages 95-97 Factorial experiment on cycles to failure of worsted yarn....Pages 98-102 Factorial experiment on diets for chickens....Pages 103-106 Binary preference data for detergent use....Pages 107-111 Fertilizer experiment on growth of cauliflowers....Pages 112-115 Subjective preference data on soap pads....Pages 116-120 Atomic weight of iodine....Pages 121-125 Multifactor experiment on a nutritive medium....Pages 126-130 Back Matter....Pages 165-167 Front Matter....Pages 51-51 Strength of cotton yarn....Pages 131-134 Biochemical experiment on the blood of mice....Pages 135-138 Voltage regulator performance....Pages 139-142 Intervals between the failure of air-conditioning equipment in aircraft....Pages 143-147 Survival times of leukemia patients....Pages 148-150 A retrospective study with binary data....Pages 151-154 Housing and associated factors....Pages 155-161 Educational plans of Wisconsin schoolboys....Pages 162-164 Back Matter....Pages 165-167 Back Matter....Pages 168-189 'This book has two parts. Part 1 discusses the general principles involved in applying statistical methods. Part 2 consists of 24 sets of data chosen from a wide range of fields of application and employing statistical techniques ranging from simple descriptive methods to the fitting of relatively complicated models. The general considerations involved in the analysis of each set of data are discussed and the analysis described. Emphasis is placed on practical interpretation. The analyses in Part 2 serve partly to illustrate the general principles set out in Part 1, although both parts can be read independently'--Back cover
