Comparing samples with large numbers of zeros

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 937-940

  Ruxton, Graeme D ^a   Rey, Denise ^b   Neuhäuser, Markus ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES KOBLENZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chi square; Exact testing; Mann Whitney U test; Permutation testing; Statistics; T test; Two part testing; Wilcoxon Mann Whitney

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 77957789944     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.08.002     Document Type: Note

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