Data Analysis and Presentation Skills: An Introduction for the Life and Medical Sciences Book

1	Working in the Windows environment	1
1.1	Basic computing terms	1
1.2	Working in Windows	2
1.3	General functions in Microsoft applications	6
2	Researching and planning scientific investigations	11
2.1	Sources of information	11
2.2	Experimental design	28
3	Presenting scientific data	35
3.1	An introduction to Microsoft Excel	35
3.2	Presenting graphs and charts	51
4	Preliminary data analysis	77
4.1	Descriptive statistics	77
4.2	Frequency distributions	86
4.3	Correlation and linear regression	92
5	Statistical analysis	107
5.1	Selecting a statistical test	107
5.2	Statistical tests for two samples	111
5.3	Analysis of variance	135
5.4	The Chi-squared test	148
6	Presentational skills	159
6.1	Preparing for seminars	159
6.2	Using Microsoft PowerPoint	162
6.3	Poster presentations	172