A Primer of Ecological Statistics

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Explains fundamental material in probability theory and experimental design for ecologists and environmental scientists. The book emphasizes a general introduction to probability theory and provides a detailed discussion of specific designs and analyses that are typically encountered in ecology and environmental science. Appropriate for use as either a stand-alone or supplementary text for upper-division undergraduate or graduate courses in ecological and environmental statistics, ecology, environmental science, environmental studies, or experimental design, the Primer also serves as a resource for environmental professionals who need to use and interpret statistics daily but have little or no formal training in the subject.

Contents

PART I. FUNDAMENTALS OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL THINKING
1. Probability: An Introduction
2. Random Variables and Probability Distributions
3. Summary Statistics: Measures of Location and Spread
4. Framing and Testing Hypotheses
5. Three Frameworks for Statistical Inference

PART II. DESIGNING EXPERIMENTS
6. Designing Successful Field Studies
7. A Bestiary of Experimental and Sampling Designs
8. Managing and Coping with your Data

PART III. DATA ANALYSIS
9. Regression
10. The Analysis of Variance
11. The Analysis of Categorical Data
12. The Analysis of Multivariate Data