Priorities in statistics, the sensitive feet of elephants, and don't transform data

Folia Geobotanica

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 161-167

  Wilson, J Bastow ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Normality; Pseudoreplication; Randomization; Restricted randomization; Spatial autocorrelation; Stratified randomization; Transformation

Indexed keywords

AUTOCORRELATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ELEPHANT; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRANSFORM; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

BRYOPHYTA; ELEPHANTIDAE;

EID: 34347222470     PISSN: 12119520     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF02893882     Document Type: Article

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