Re: [R-sig-eco] question about appropriate model for abundance studies

2011-03-27 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Fri, 2011-03-18 at 14:14 +0100, Sacha Viquerat wrote: hello! I did a count survey on a tropical fish species! Well, I didnt do it, Im just helping at the statistics-stage. We recorded some water parameters alogside each catch, such as no3, no2, po4 etc. as the data are count data (and

Re: [R-sig-eco] question about appropriate model for abundance studies

2011-03-27 Thread Gavin Simpson
On Sun, 2011-03-27 at 20:18 +0100, Gavin Simpson wrote: snip / I think you are confusing the error structure with the model or systematic structure? Yes, Poisson errors are expected with count abundance data, or if there is more dispersion than expected under the Poisson, then a negative

[R-sig-eco] question about appropriate model for abundance studies

2011-03-19 Thread Nicholas Lewin-Koh
: Sacha Viquerat tweedi...@web.de To: r-sig-ecology@r-project.org Subject: [R-sig-eco] question about appropriate model for abundance studies Message-ID: 4d835aa4.40...@web.de Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed hello! I did a count survey on a tropical fish

[R-sig-eco] question about appropriate model for abundance studies

2011-03-18 Thread Sacha Viquerat
hello! I did a count survey on a tropical fish species! Well, I didnt do it, Im just helping at the statistics-stage. We recorded some water parameters alogside each catch, such as no3, no2, po4 etc. as the data are count data (and require error terms due to spatial pseudoreplication), the glm