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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... nearest neighbor , and no one seems to have gone beyond the fifth nearest neighbor . Thompson ( 1956 ) showed that the Clark and Evans approach could be easily generalized to the second , third , . . . nth nearest neighbors . Table 6.1 ...
... nearest neighbor , third nearest neighbor and so on , and every one of these tests is indepen- dent . It is possible for nearest neighbors to be uniformly spaced , while second nearest neighbors may be clumped in their distribution ...
... nearest neighbor are available , Thompson's test is applied n times . It is possible that nearest neighbors are uniformly distributed but that fifth nearest neighbors are clumped , so each test must be done independently . Thompson's ...