TY - BOOK AU - Gotelli, N. J. AU - Ellison, A. M. TI - A primer of ecological statistics U1 - e-book (NRM) PY - 2001/// CY - USA. PB - Sinauer Associates, Inc. KW - 1. Ecology--Statistical methods. I. Ellison, Aaron M., 1960- II. Title N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - Brief Contents PART I FUNDAMENTALS OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL THINKING 1 An Introduction to Probability 3 2 Random Variables and Probability Distributions 25 3 Summary Statistics: Measures of Location and Spread 57 4 Framing and Testing Hypotheses 79 5 Three Frameworks for Statistical Analysis 107 PART II DESIGNING EXPERIMENTS 6 Designing Successful Field Studies 137 7 A Bestiary of Experimental and Sampling Designs 163 8 Managing and Curating Data 207 PART III DATA ANALYSIS 9 Regression 239 10 The Analysis of Variance 289 11 The Analysis of Categorical Data 349 12 The Analysis of Multivariate Data 383 PART IV ESTIMATION 13 The Measurement of Biodiversity 449 14 Detecting Populations and Estimating their Size 483 Appendix Matrix Algebra for Ecologists 523 ER -