Circular statistics in biology
By: Edward Batschelet.
Series: Mathematics in biology
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 390
Subjects: Biometry.; Sampling (Statistics); Distribution (Probability theory)
Description: xvi, 371 p. : 24 cm
Notes: Bibliography: p. 353-366.
Includes index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1: Statistical tools.; title: - Measures of location --; title: - Measures of dispersion, skewness, and kurtosis --; title: - Point estimation of parameters and fitting of distributions --; title: - Tests for randomness and goodness-of-fit --; title: - Confidence intervals --; title: - Two-sample and multisample tests --; title: - Bivariate methods --; title: - Periodic regression --; title: - Circular correlation --; title: - Second-order statistical analysis --; title: - Spherical distributions.; title: pt. 2: Mathematical tools.; title: - Essentials of plane geometry --; title: - Geometry of the ellipse --; title: - The bivariate normal distribution --; title: - Circular distributions --; title: - Moments of circular distributions --; title: - Maximum likelihood estimation.; title: - bibliography; title: - index