Description: This handbook is aimed at all research scientists who use laboratory animals, with the aim of helping them to design their own experiments more effectively and/or to improve their ability to communicate with professional statisticians when designing more complex experiments.   It covers many aspects of experimental design, such as choice of experimental animal, which are not considered by most statistics textbooks.   It does not cover the more advanced designs or statistical methods, so it should be used in conjunction with more conventional statistics textbooks.   This handbook also contains links to a number of web sites of interest to those seeking further information related to statistical and experimental design.   Table of Contents: Acknowledgement; Preface; Basic principles of the design of animal experiments; Choice of animals; Understanding and controlling variation; The design of experiments; The determination of sample size; Presenting and interpreting the results and making decisions; Concluding remarks: putting the project together; Appendix 1: Brief notes on statistical packages: Appendix 2: Further reading; References.

Comments & References: Laboratory Animal Handbooks Series, No. 14.   116 pages.   Paperback.   This handbook can be ordered online from http://www.lal.org.uk/handbooks.html.   A flyer in pdf format describing this book may be downloaded at http://oslovet.veths.no/textbase/Lahbk14.pdf.   Please see record number 5250 in the NORINA database for information on a CD-ROM, entitled "Experimental Design", based on this textbook.   The Laboratory Animal Handbooks are published by Royal Society of Medicine Press (RSM), for Laboratory Animals Ltd in London.   All cheques payable to Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd.   Please see reviews on this book at http://www.rsmpress.co.uk/bkfesting.htm.   A review of this book is also available in Laboratory Animals, July 2002, Volume 36 (3), page 351 or at http://la.rsmjournals.com/archive.

ISBN: 1-85315-513-6

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