The arcsine is asinine: The analysis of proportions in ecology

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 3-10

  Warton, David I ^a   Hui, Francis K C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Arcsine transformation; Binomial; Generalized linear mixed models; Logistic regression; Logit transformation; Overdispersion; Power; Type I error

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; DATA SET; LINEARITY; LOGIT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; METHODOLOGY; STATISTICS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 79955546353     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-0340.1     Document Type: Article

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