Ecological MethodologyThis coherent text translates the methods of statisticians into "ecological English" so that students may readily apply these methods to the real world. Ecological Methodology, Second Edition provides a balance of material on animal and plant populations. It teaches students of ecology how to design the most efficient tests in order to obtain maximum precision with minimal work. The first part of the text focuses on biological and technical issues in statistical methodology. Students learn about advances that have been made in designing better sampling devices, along with the techniques and equipment used for sampling. The second part deals with creating solid statistical design, and presents all methods that are well-known to statisticians in a language and context that students will easily understand. |
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... Table 2.7 άσ = 57 +1 79 + 1 = 0.725 ( 2.41 ) Having calculated these values , as shown in Table 2.8 , we can obtain the desired estimate : M1 - 2 " = m , + S 21 + 1 M , + di ά , ( 2.42 ) where d , = Number caught in sample t and not ...
... tables may be calculated for each group . Table 14.1 gives an example of a life table for female African buffalo . Life tables have been presented in several formats , and the following symbols are commonly used to summarize the data in ...
... TABLE . TO USE THIS TABLE , DETERMINE WHAT TYPE OF DATA YOU HAVE ( LEFT SIDE OF TABLE ) AND MOVE ACROSS THE ROW TO THE COLUMN OF THE TYPE OF DATA YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE . nx Ix dx qx Px nx nx ... Tables Methods of Collecting Life Table Data.