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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... Confidence Intervals How reliable are these estimates of population size ? To answer this critical question , a statistician constructs confidence intervals around the estimates . A confidence interval is a range of values that is ...
... confidence intervals will cover the true population size . Alas , you only have one estimate , and on the average does not tell you whether your one confidence interval is lucky or unlucky . Confidence intervals are an important guide ...
... confidence interval to be ± 2.8 mm or less for your white- fish . Alternatively , you can define the relative level of precision desired . For example , you may wish the 95 % confidence interval to be ± 6 % of the mean or less . These ...