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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... parameters were least variable . All else being equal , physical - chemical parameters should provide more reliable measures of environmental impact . But a second critical variable intervenes here : the effect size , or how large a ...
... parameters applicable only at the community level . One community pa- rameter is similarity , and Chapter 11 discusses how to measure the similarity among com- munities . Similarity is the basis of classification , and this chapter ...
... parameter of interest from each bootstrap sample . 3. Estimate the mean and standard error of the parameter of interest from the rep- licate bootstrap estimates . Bootstrap estimates of parameters are known to be biased , If the true ...