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THE profound effect which R. A. Fisher has had on the interpretation of biological data has been mediated through a book which most biologists can only dimly understand at first. The meanings of the new ideas put forward in this book are often not fully explained ; but the interested reader is stimulated to think them out for himself. More detailed expositions of many of the new statistical methods are contained in various other books ; but Dr. Mather's book is, so to speak, the authorized version. The author is primarily a biologist ; but he has evidently devoted much thought to the meaning of the quantities that can be calculated from a set of data and their relation to one another. His book is illustrated with examples, and the reasoning is given at length so that much of it can be read fairly rapidly.
Statistical Analysis in Biology
By Dr. K. Mather. Second edition, revised and enlarged. Pp. iv + 268. (London: Methuen and Co. Ltd., 1946.) 16s. net.
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Statistical Analysis in Biology. Nature 159, 522 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159522b0
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