Description: Introductory statistical methods, with emphasis on applications in biology. Topics include descriptive statistics, binomial and normal distributions, confidence interval estimation, ...

Based on a statistic proposed by Cook (1977) for the detection of influential observations, we propose a measure for the influence of variables in linear-regression models, and we introduce the ...

A supremum-type statistic, based on partial sums of residuals, is proposed to test the validity of the mean function of the response variable in a generalized linear model. The proposed test does not ...