Practical statistics for field biology
by
 
Fowler, Jim, 1943-

Title
Practical statistics for field biology

Author
Fowler, Jim, 1943-

ISBN
9780471982968
 
9780471982951

Personal Author
Fowler, Jim, 1943-

Edition
2nd ed.

Publication Information
Chichester ; New York : Wiley, 1998.

Physical Description
p. cm.

Contents
1. Introduction -- 2. Measurement and Sampling Concepts -- 3. Processing Data -- 4. Presenting Data -- 5. Measuring the Average -- 6. Measuring Variability -- 7. Probability -- 8. Probability Distributions as Models of Dispersion -- 9. The Normal Distribution -- 10. Data Transformation -- 11. How Good are our Estimates? -- 12. The Basis of Statistical Testing -- 13. Analysing Frequencies -- 14. Measuring Correlations -- 15. Regression Analysis -- 16. Comparing Averages -- 17. Analysis of Variance - ANOVA -- 18. Multivariate Analysis -- App. 1. Table of random numbers -- App. 2. t-distribution -- App. 3. [actual symbol not reproducible][superscript 2]-distribution -- App. 4. Critical values of Spearman's Rank Correlation Coefficient -- App. 5. Product moment correlation values at the 0.05 and 0.01 levels of significance -- App. 6. Mann-Whitney U-test values (two-tailed test) P = 0.05 -- App. 7. Critical values of T in the Wilcoxon test for two matched samples.
 
App. 8. F-distribution, 0.05 level of significance, two-tailed test -- App. 9. Critical values of F[subscript max] 0.05 level of significance -- App. 10. F-distribution -- App. 11. Tukey test -- App. 12. Symbols -- App. 13. Matrices and vectors -- App. 14. Computer packages.

Subject Term
Biology -- Fieldwork -- Statistical methods.
 
Ecology -- Statistical methods.

Added Author
Cohen, Louis, 1928-
 
Jarvis, Phil.


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