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.