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The primate visual system : a comparative approach / edited by Jan Kremers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chichester : John Wiley, c2005.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xiii, 367 p. : ill. ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780470869090 (hbk.)
  • 9780470868096 (hbk.) :
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 573.88198 22
LOC classification:
  • R118.6 .B69 2006
Online resources:
Contents:
The abstract and introduction -- The objectives -- Descriptive studies -- Analytic studies -- Intervention studies -- The research setting -- Populations and samples -- Identifying and defining cases -- Controls and comparisons -- Identifying the characteristics of data -- Summarizing the characteristics of data -- Measuring the characteristics of subjects -- Measuring the characteristics of measures -- Measuring scales -- Fractions, proportions and rates -- Risk and odds -- Ratios of risks and odds -- Confidence intervals for means, proportions, and medians -- Confidence intervals for ratios -- Testing hypotheses - the p-value -- Measuring association -- Measuring agreement -- The linear regression model -- The logistic regression model -- Systematic review and meta-analysis -- Measuring survival -- Results in text and tables -- Results in pictures -- The discussion and the conclusions.
Summary: Providing the reader with fundamental concepts of the primate visual function, this text takes a comparative approach as a basis for studying the physiological properties of primate visual systems, as well as examining the phylogenetic relationship between the visual systems of different primate species.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The abstract and introduction -- The objectives -- Descriptive studies -- Analytic studies -- Intervention studies -- The research setting -- Populations and samples -- Identifying and defining cases -- Controls and comparisons -- Identifying the characteristics of data -- Summarizing the characteristics of data -- Measuring the characteristics of subjects -- Measuring the characteristics of measures -- Measuring scales -- Fractions, proportions and rates -- Risk and odds -- Ratios of risks and odds -- Confidence intervals for means, proportions, and medians -- Confidence intervals for ratios -- Testing hypotheses - the p-value -- Measuring association -- Measuring agreement -- The linear regression model -- The logistic regression model -- Systematic review and meta-analysis -- Measuring survival -- Results in text and tables -- Results in pictures -- The discussion and the conclusions.

Providing the reader with fundamental concepts of the primate visual function, this text takes a comparative approach as a basis for studying the physiological properties of primate visual systems, as well as examining the phylogenetic relationship between the visual systems of different primate species.

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