Asking Questions in Biology

The late Chris Barnard was Professor of Animal Behaviour at Nottingham University. Francis Gilbert is Professor of Ecology at Nottingham University. Peter McGregor is Research Co-ordinator for Science & Natural Environment at Cornwall College.

• Preface 1   Doing science: Where do questions come from? 2   Asking questions: The art of framing hypotheses and predictions 3   Answering questions: What do the results say? 4   Presenting information: How to communicate outcomes and conclusions Test finder and help guide Some self-test questions Appendix I: Table of confidence limits to the median Appendix II: How to calculate some simple significance tests Appendix III: Significance tables Appendix IV: The common codes for the important graphical parameters of R Answers to self-test questions Index Quick test finders