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This book is an introductory account of time-series analysis, examined from the perspective of an applied statistician specializing in biological applications. It includes full chapter coverage of exploratory methods, including time-plots, smoothing, the correlogram and periodgram, as well asthe theory of stationary random processes, spectral analysis and regression modelling, repeated measurements, ARIMA modelling, forecasting, and bivariate time series analysis. The book emphasizes biological and medical applications, but will be particularly useful to students and practitioners ofapplied statistics in all fields of application, as well as to biologists whose work involves the analysis of time-series data.