A Primer of Ecological Statistics

PART I: FUNDAMENTALS OF PROBABILITY AND STATISTICAL THINKING.- Probability: An Introduction to Probability .- Random Variables and Probability Distributions .- Summary Statistics: Measures of Location and Spread .- Framing and Testing Hypotheses .- Three Frameworks for Statistical Analysis .- PART II: DESIGNING EXPERIMENTS.- Designing Successful Field Studies .- A Bestiary of Experimental and Sampling Designs .- Managing and Curating Data .- PART III: DATA ANALYSIS.- Regression .- The Analysis of Variance .- The Analysis of Categorical Data .- The Analysis of Multivariate Data .- PART IV: ESTIMATION .- The Measurement of Biodiversity .- Detecting Populations and Estimating their Size.