Dear Bob, I enjoyed reading Zuur et al (2009)
@BOOK{ title = {Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R}, publisher = {Springer New York}, year = {2009}, author = {Zuur, Alain F. and Ieno, Elena N. and Walker, Neil J. and Saveliev, Anatoly A. and Smith, Graham M.}, doi = {10.1007/978-0-387-87458-6} } Best regards, Thierry ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ir. Thierry Onkelinx Instituut voor natuur- en bosonderzoek team Biometrie & Kwaliteitszorg Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium Research Institute for Nature and Forest team Biometrics & Quality Assurance Gaverstraat 4 9500 Geraardsbergen Belgium tel. + 32 54/436 185 thierry.onkel...@inbo.be www.inbo.be To call in the statistician after the experiment is done may be no more than asking him to perform a post-mortem examination: he may be able to say what the experiment died of. ~ Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher The plural of anecdote is not data. ~ Roger Brinner The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. ~ John Tukey > -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: r-sig-ecology-boun...@r-project.org > [mailto:r-sig-ecology-boun...@r-project.org] Namens Bob Keeland > Verzonden: woensdag 17 november 2010 18:57 > Aan: r-sig-ecology@r-project.org > Onderwerp: [R-sig-eco] New to R > > OK all, I'm a research forest ecologist who worked for the US > Fish & Wildlife Service and the US Geological Survey for 16 > years after studying under Dr. Sharitz at the Savannah River > Ecology Laboratory. Most of my work has been in bottomland > hardwood forest and cypress/tupelo swamps of the Southeastern > United States. My data analysis tool was SAS, and I do some > programming in Visual Basic. I now work with a very small > company that has little in the way of data analysis or > graphics capabilites. I therefore downloaded R and am trying > to figure it out. > > Other than the "Introduction to R" manual and other things on > the R website can you recommend a good book on R. My analysis > needs are not that complex. I currently need to do an ANOVA > on two tree populations to see if they are significantly > different with respect to size (one area was polluted and the > other is a control). I also need to do some point-quarter > analysis for two separate forest populations, one in NE Texas > and the other in S Mississipp). > > Any help or suggestions would be appreciated. > > Bob Keeland > Research Forest Ecologist > Forest Dynamics, Inc. > Louisiana > > > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > _______________________________________________ R-sig-ecology mailing list R-sig-ecology@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-ecology