The Analysis of Biological Data, Second Edition

I love this book. I have never felt this way about a textbook before. I would marry this textbook. I would certainly give it more than 5 stars, if I could.I teach introductory biostatistics at the college level. This book does an excellent job of presenting statistics as biologists use them. The examples and end-of-chapter questions all use real published data, broadly representing all fields of biology, from cell bio to ecology to medicine. This make it very interesting for most biology students, with a little something for everybody. The text is eminently readable, and the authors' sense of humor really shines through.Every dataset for every example/question is available for download from the accompanying website. The website also includes annotated R code for every example from the text. The book and website together are thus a great resource for learning R. Another reviewer commented that the book does not teach programming -- they must not have noticed the website, or read the introduction to the book. It is true, though, that the text itself stands alone without relying on any particular software, which I would say is a strength.Honestly, this book makes statistics a joy to teach. I don't know what I'd do without it. I am so grateful to Whitlock and Schluter for writing it. They deserve a medal.

The book was delivered in excellent condition, at the time it was supposed to arrive. I am using it for my college class.

I used this textbook for my Bio statistics class and it was incredibly helpful and very easy to read. I am not good at stats, but this book helped me get through my homework, a lot faster than I would've. This is one of the only textbooks that I've used so far in college that helped me understand what I learned in class so much more. It's nothing on my professor, he was very clear in teaching, I'm just very bad at anything that involves math. Overall, the textbook was a very useful reference to help me study and clear up anything that I didn't quite understand all on my own time.

Chapter explanations are good and practice problems are useful, however the answer key in the back is riddled with errors and typos.

Really helpful book, but in a lot of chapters particularly in the t tests it doesn't always explain the concepts well and often has issues explaining the math step by step. However, is a must for any who need to learn statistics for biological data

Well written and covers the basics of biostatistics. Would highly recommend for intro stats classes.

Amazing book, but came with huge dent on top part of the exterior. Didn't realize there was a return window (am a college student and didn't think to return it right away because of other more pressing things) and am a bit upset about the dent since I paid so much for a nice book.

Used it for school because I didn’t want to pay the absurd amount for actually buying it. Came in good condition and was very useful.