9597

• UCREFRP Catalog Number: 9597
• Author: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
• Title: Biological Field and Laboratory Methods for Measuring the Quality of Surface Waters and Effluents.
• USFW Year: 1973.
• USFW - Doc Type: Cincinnati, OH.
• Copyright Material: NO

BIOMETRICS

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1.0 INTRODUCTION
1.1 Terminology
2.0 STUDY DESIGN
2.1 Randomization
2.2 Sample Size
2.3 Subsamp1ing .
3.0 GRAPHIC EXAMINATION OF DATA
3.1 Raw Data ......
3.2 Frequency Histograms. .
3.3 Frequency Polygon
3.4 Cumulative Frequency .
3.5 Two-dimensional Graphs
4,0 SAMPLE MEAN AND VARIANCE
4.1 General Application .....
4.2 Statistics for Stratified Random Samples
4.3 Statistics for Subsamples
4.4 Rounding ......
5.0 TESTS OF HYPOTHESES
5.1 T-test
5.2 Chi Square Test
5.3 F-test
5.4 Analysis of Variance .
6.0 CONFIDENCE INTERVALS FOR MEANS
AND VARIANCES . . . . . . . . . . .
7.0 LINEAR REGRESSION AND CORRELATION
7.1 Basic Concepts ..... . .
7.2 Basic Computations
7.3 Tests of Hypotheses
7.4 Regression for Bivariate Data
7.5 Linear Correlation
8.0 BIBLIOGRAPHY .......

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