Re: common mistakes in statistics

2000-12-22 Thread mustela
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Re: common mistakes in statistics

2000-12-08 Thread SSCHEINE
Ken, The simple answer is no. "Ecology" is such a broad field that just about everything is used somewhere. Sam Ken wrote: > > Humility is good :) > > While I'm a degreed (Iowa State University) and practicing statistician, in > a prior life I also received an advanced degree in Animal Ecol

Re: common mistakes in statistics

2000-12-07 Thread Ken
Humility is good :) While I'm a degreed (Iowa State University) and practicing statistician, in a prior life I also received an advanced degree in Animal Ecology (actually Limnology) from ISU. Having not read your book I'm curious if there are general design types used in Ecology, and if so, wha

Re: common mistakes in statistics

2000-12-07 Thread Gene Gallagher
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Re: common mistakes in statistics

2000-12-07 Thread Jineshwar Singh
act but you can control how you react. 416 -415-2089 http://www.gbrownc.on.ca/~jsingh - Original Message - From: Conn, Judith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Dalby, James' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 07, 2000 8:15 AM Subject: RE: c

Re: Fwd: common mistakes in statistics

2000-12-07 Thread dennis roberts
another RELATED paper ... actually a commentary ... by menger and haim, appeared in NATURE ... v359, october 22, 1992 ... pp 656 - 668 ... is called: struggles to correct published errors ... think this is easy??? ha! fascinating ... At 10:52 PM 12/6/00 -0500, you wrote: > > > > X-Authentica

Re: Fwd: common mistakes in statistics

2000-12-07 Thread dennis roberts
one great paper was done by ken brewer, behavioral statistics textbooks: source of myths and misconceptions j of educational statistics, fall 1985, v10, #3, pp 252-268 he took a sample of stat books, then focused on a number of issues like: hypothesis testing concepts, power, confidence i

Re: common mistakes in statistics

2000-12-07 Thread SSCHEINE
James, I will humbly submit my own book "Design and Analysis of Ecological Experiments" (eds. S. M. Scheiner and J. Gurevitch). The various chapters discuss these issues and provide references to various articles that go into details about specific instances. Sam Scheiner > "Dalby, James" wr

RE: common mistakes in statistics

2000-12-07 Thread Conn, Judith
PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: common mistakes in statistics Does anyone on the list know of any books or articles describing the most common statistical mistakes in the scientific literature? I am particularly interested in statistical errors in the ecological literature, but am open

RE: common mistakes in statistics

2000-12-07 Thread Olsen, Chris
Title: common mistakes in statistics Sir --      I'm not sure if experimental design falls in your domain of interest, but if so you might try...   Hurlbert, S. H.    Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological field experiments.  Ecological Monographs.  54(2), 1984, 187-211.  

common mistakes in statistics

2000-12-06 Thread Dalby, James
Title: common mistakes in statistics Does anyone on the list know of any books or articles describing the most common statistical mistakes in the scientific literature?  I am particularly interested in statistical errors in the ecological literature, but am open to information on errors in