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APrimerofEcologicalStatistics,SecondEdition,explainsfundamentalmaterialinprobabilitytheory, experimentaldesign,andparameterestimationforecologistsandenvironmentalscientists.Thebookemphasizes ageneralintroductiontoprobabilitytheoryandprovidesadetaileddiscussionofspecificdesignsandanalyses thataretypicallyencounteredinecologyandenvironmentalscience.Appropriateforuseaseitherastand-alone orsupplementarytextforupper-divisionundergraduateorgraduatecoursesinecologicalandenvironmental statistics,ecology,environmentalscience,environmentalstudies,orexperimentaldesign,the Primeralsoserves asaresourceforenvironmentalprofessionalswhoneedtouseandinterpretstatisticsdailybuthavelittleorno formaltraininginthesubject.Thebookisdividedintofourparts.PartIdiscussesthefundamentalsof probabilityandstatisticalthinking.Itintroducesthelogicandlanguageofprobability(Chapter1),explains commonstatisticaldistributionsusedinecology(Chapter2)andimportantmeasuresofcentraltendencyand spread(Chapter3),explainsP-values,hypothesistesting,andstatisticalerrors(Chapter4),andintroduces frequentist,Bayesian,andMonteCarlomethodsofanalysis(Chapter5).PartIIdiscusseshowtosuccessfully designandexecutefieldexperimentsandsamplingstudies.Topicsincludedesignstrategies(Chapter6),a "bestiary"ofexperimentaldesigns(Chapter7),andtransformationsanddatamanagement(Chapter8).PartIII discussesspecificanalyses,andcoversthematerialthatisthemaincoreofmoststatisticstexts.Topicsinclude regression(Chapter9),analysisofvariance(Chapter10),categoricaldataanalysis(Chapter11),and multivariateanalysis(Chapter12).PartIV--newtothisedition--discussestwocentraltopicsinestimating importantecologicalmetrics.Topicsincludequantificationofbiologicaldiversity(Chapter13)andestimating occupancy,detectionprobability,andpopulationsizesfrommarkedandunmarkedpopulations(Chapter14). Thebookincludesacomprehensiveglossary,amathematicalappendixonmatrixalgebra,andextensively annotatedtablesandfigures.Footnotesintroduceadvancedandancillarymaterial:somearepurelyhistorical, otherscovermathematical/statisticalproofsordetails,andstillothersaddresscurrenttopicsintheecological
literature.ForStudentsDatafilesandcodeusedforsomeoftheexamplesareavailableonthecompanion website.ForInstructorsInstructor'sResourceLibraryThisresourceincludesallfigures(line-artillustrationsand photographs)andtablesfromthetextbook,providedasbothhigh-andlow-resolutionJPEGs.Allhavebeen formattedandoptimizedforexcellentprojectionquality.Alsoincludedareready-to-usePowerPointslidesofall figuresandtables.Readmore