ABSTRACT

Unbiased Stereology, Second Edition is a practical guide to making unbiased 3-D measurements via the microscope. Only those stereological techniques which have been tried and tested by real application are included. Although this technology is essentially mathematical and statistical, the authors do not immerse the reader in complex analysis, but rather provide simple heuristic explanations and references to the original proof, and illustrate the theory by analogies drawn from everyday experience.

To give practical experience in application of the techniques, exercises are provided at the end of each chapter, complete with detailed worked answers.

chapter 1|16 pages

Concepts

chapter 2|18 pages

Random sampling and random geometry

chapter 5|38 pages

Number estimation

chapter 7|8 pages

Length estimation

chapter 9|10 pages

Particle sizing

chapter 10|22 pages

Statistics for stereologists

chapter 11|18 pages

Single-object stereology

chapter 12|12 pages

‘Petri-metrics’

chapter 13|16 pages

Second-order stereology