Suggested Reading

PBIO-515, B.C. McCarthy

Quantitative Methods in Plant Biology

IMPORTANT NOTES:

Becker, R.A., W.S. Cleveland, and A.R. Wilks. 1987. Dynamic Graphics for Data Analysis. Statistical Science 2: 355-383. View JSTOR Article

Bennington, C.C. and W.V. Thayne. 1994. Use and Misuse of Mixed Model Analysis of Variance in Ecological Studies. Ecology 75: 717-722. View JSTOR Article

Cade, B.S. and B.R. Noon. A gentle introduction to quantile regression for ecologists. Front. Ecol. Environ. 1: 412-420. View PDF Article.

Cain, M.L. 1989. The Analysis of Angular Data in Ecological Field Studies. Ecology 70: 1540-1543. View JSTOR Article

Cottingham, K.L., J.T. Lennon, and B.L. Brown. 2005. Knowing when to draw the line: designing more informative ecological experiments. View PDF Article.

D'Agostino et al. 1990. A suggestion for using powerful and informative tests of normality. The American Statistician 44: 316-321. View PDF Article

Day, R.W. and G. P. Quinn. 1989. Comparisons of Treatments After an Analysis of Variance in Ecology. Ecological Monographs 59: 433-463. View JSTOR Article

Dutilleul, P. 1993. Spatial Heterogeneity and the Design of Ecological Field Experiments. Ecology 74: 1646-1658. View JSTOR Article

Gaines, S.D. and M.W. Denny. 1993. The Largest, Smallest, Highest, Lowest, Longest, and Shortest: Extremes in Ecology Ecology 74: 1677-1692. View JSTOR Article

Hobbs, N.T. and R. Hilborn. 2006. Alternatives to statisticl hypothesis tyesting in ecology: a guide to self teaching. Ecol. Appl. 16: 5-19. View PDF article.

Hurlbert, S.H. 1984. Pseudoreplication and the Design of Ecological Field Experiments. Ecological Monographs 54: 187-211. View JSTOR Article

Legendre, P., M. R. T. Dale, M-J Fortin, P. Casgrain, and J. Gurevitch. 2004. Effects of spatial structures on the results of field experiments. Ecology 85: 3202-3214. View PDF article.

Newman, J.A., J. Bergelson, and A. Grafen. 1997. Blocking factors and hypothesis tests in ecology: is your statistics text wrong? Ecology 78: 1312-1320.  View PDF Article.

Potvin, C., M.J. Lechowicz, and S. Tardif. 1990. The Statistical Analysis of Ecophysiological Response Curves Obtained from Experiments Involving Repeated Measures. Ecology 71: 1389-1400. View JSTOR Article

Potvin, C. and D.A. Roff. 1993. Distribution-Free and Robust Statistical Methods: Viable Alternatives to Parametric Statistics. Ecology 74: 1617-1628. View JSTOR Article

Pyke, D.A. and J.N. Thompson. 1986. Statistical Analysis of Survival and Removal Rate Experiments. Ecology 67: 240-245. View JSTOR Article

Scharf, F.S., F. Juanes, and M. Sutherland. 1998. Inferring ecological relationships from the edges of scatter diagrams: comparison of regression techniques. Ecology 79: 448-460. View PDF article.

Shaw, R.G. and T. Mitchell-Olds. 1993. Anova for Unbalanced Data: An Overview. Ecology 74: 1638-1645. View JSTOR Article

Smith, S.M. 1995. Distribution-Free and Robust Statistical Methods: Viable Alternatives to Parametric Statistics? Ecology 76: 1997-1998. View JSTOR Article

Stewart-Oaten, A. 1995. Rules and Judgments in Statistics: Three Examples. Ecology 76: 2001-2009. View JSTOR Article

Trexler, J.C. and J. Travis. 1993. Nontraditional Regression Analyses. Ecology 74: 1629-1637. View JSTOR Article

Tukey, J.D. 1990. Data-based graphics: Visual display in the decades to come. Statistical Science 5: 327-339. View JSTOR Article