Data Analysis and Presentation Skills: An Introduction for the Life and Medical Sciences

1. Working in theWindows Environment.

1.1 Basic computing terms.

1.2 Working inWindows.

1.3 General functions in Microsoft applications.

2. Researching and Planning Scientific Investigations.

2.1 Sources of information.

2.2 Experimental design.

3. Presenting Scientific Data.

3.1 An Introduction to Microsoft Excel.

3.2 Presenting graphs and charts.

4. Preliminary Data Analysis.

4.1 Descriptive statistics.

4.2 Frequency distributions .

4.3 Correlation and linear regression

5. Statistical Analysis.

5.1 Selecting a statistical test.

5.2 Statistical tests for two samples.

5.3 Analysis of variance.

5.4 The Chi-squared test.

6. Presentational Skills.

6.1 Preparing for seminars.

6.2 Using Microsoft PowerPoint.

6.3 Poster presentations.

Appendix.

Further Reading.

Alt key codes for special symbols in Microsoft applications.

Statistical tables.

Index.