The importance of the biological system underlying the data when choosing a statistical test: why penguins need to be treated differently to parasites

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2009, Pages e1-

  Neuhäuser, Markus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES KOBLENZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

colony size; different views of group size; measures of sociality; Megadyptes antipodes; permutation test; yellow eyed penguin

Indexed keywords

AALENIAN; GROUP SIZE; PARASITE; SEABIRD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD;

MEGADYPTES ANTIPODES; SPHENISCIDAE;

EID: 62149084472     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.016     Document Type: Article

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