Fitting Models to Biological Data Using Linear and Nonlinear Regression: A Practical Guide to Curve Fitting
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Overview
Most biologists use nonlinear regression more than any other statistical technique, but there are very few places to learn about curve-fitting. This book, by the author of the very successful Intuitive Biostatistics, addresses this relatively focused need of an extraordinarily broad range of scientists.
Synopsis
Introductory statistics texts do not consider non-linear regression, and textbooks that do are advanced treatments for mathematicians. So pharmacological researchers Motulsky (U. of California-San Diego) and Christopoulos (U. of Melbourne) offer a hands-on practical introduction for biologists, leaving out all but the most elemental mathematics. The text is a companion for the computer program GraphPad Prism (v.4), but they say most of it would apply to any similar program. Annotation © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR