Biometrical applications in biological sciences-A review on the agony for their practical efficiency-Problems and perspectives

Abstract

It is rather a very well known feeling in the teaching statistics rooms the common students’ anxiety for their inability to make clear the practical applications of the theoretical statistics on real biological research matters. Of course, it could be considered somehow reasonable some decades ago, as then there were not so many data available, neither computers in the lectures rooms and surely not any statistical software for the proper data organization, manipulation and analysis. Neither the students nor the researchers were of a diminished intelligence, but the lack of the proper tools available today was the reason of their inability to understand well the theory and make it applicable to practical matters. Frank Yates an enthusiastic user of computers writing used to say. to be a good theoretical statistician one must also compute, and must therefore have the best computing aids.