Statistics for Ecologists Using R and Excel
Data Collection, Exploration, Analysis and Presentation
$98.45
- Paperback
406 pages
- Release Date
9 January 2017
Summary
This is a book about the scientific process and how you apply it to data in ecology. You will learn how to plan for data collection, how to assemble data, how to analyze data and finally how to present the results. The book uses Microsoft Excel and the powerful Open Source R program to carry out data handling as well as producing graphs.
Statistical approaches covered include: data exploration; tests for difference – t-test and U-test; correlation – Spearman’s rank test and Pearson p…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781784271398 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 178427139X |
| Author: | Mark Gardener |
| Publisher: | Pelagic Publishing |
| Imprint: | Pelagic Publishing |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 406 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 9 January 2017 |
| Weight: | 860g |
| Dimensions: | 244mm x 170mm |
| Series: | Data in the Wild |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
This book is a superb way in for all those looking at how to design investigations and collect data to support their findings. (This review refers to the first edition.)
The text that I have found most helpful in getting back to using R has been Mark Gardener’s Statistics for Ecologists Using R and Excel. This excellent little book leads the reader nicely through the basics. Starting with how to down load R and getting data into the programme through exploratory statistics and into basic analysis with a section on reporting results which includes visualising data. It also makes it easy for the reader to synthesise R and Excel and there is extra help and sample data available on the free companion webpage if needed. I recommended this text to the university library as well as to colleagues at my student workshops on R. Although I initially bought this book when I wanted to discover R I actually also learned new techniques for data manipulation and management in Excel. (This review refers to the first edition.)
– Mark Edwards * EcoBlogging *This book is a superb way in for all those looking at how to design investigations and collect data to support their findings. (This review refers to the first edition.)
– Sue Townsend, Biodiversity Learning Manager, Field Studies CouncilAbout The Author
Mark Gardener
Mark Gardener is an ecologist, lecturer, and writer working in the UK. His primary area of research was in pollination ecology and he has worked in the UK and around the word (principally Australia and the United States). Since his doctorate he has worked in many areas of ecology, often as a teacher and supervisor. He believes that ecological data, especially community data, is the most complicated and ill-behaved and is consequently the most fun to work with. He was introduced to R by a like-minded pedant whilst working in Australia during his doctorate. Learning R was not only fun but opened up a new avenue, making the study of community ecology a whole lot easier. He is currently self-employed and runs courses in ecology, data analysis, and R for a variety of organizations. Mark lives in rural Devon with his wife Christine, a biochemist who consequently has little need of statistics.
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