Welcome to the resource pages for the The Analysis of Biological Data, 3rd edition, by Michael Whitlock and Dolph Schluter. The book is an introduction to statistics for biologists, available from Macmillan here.

Below, you’ll find links to data sets and other resources for each chapter.

On these pages, you will find a variety of learning resources, including:

  • R labs: Learn basic statistical analyses and core concepts using the statistical package R.

  • R code for examples: We used R to analyze all examples in the book. We put the code here so that you can too.

  • Interactive visualizations: Concept visualizations to develop intuition about some of the trickier concepts in statistics.

  • Data sets: Download a .zip file with all data sets in the book here.

The website for the 1st and 2nd editions is still live at whitlockschluter.zoology.ubc.ca. If you find any errors or have any suggestions, please write the authors. Previously identified typos are listed here.