Statistical Ecology
Stat 555, Fall 2009

Instructor: Dr. Brian Tissot, Office in VELS 230M
Office Hours: Tu 10:30-12 or by appointment 546-9611
Internet: E-mail: Tissot@vancouver.wsu.edu;
Texts: 

    Main Text:

1. Underwood, A. J. 1997. Experiments in Ecology: their logical design and interpretation using analysis of variance. Cambridge University Press,  Cambridge, U

    Recommended Texts:

1. Pimentel, R.A. 1979. Morphometrics: The Multivariate Analysis of Biological Data, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, Iowa, USA.
2. Dillon, W. R. and M. Goldstein. 1984. Multivariate Analysis: Methods  and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, NY  

3. McCune, B., J.B. Grace, and D.L. Urban. 2002. Analysis of Ecological Communities. MJM Software Designs, Gleneden Beach, OR 300pp.

Prerequisites for the course:

                Stat 412, Biometry, or the equivalent or consent of the Instructor and
                computer experience; experience in Minitab, SAS, Primer, PC-ORD and Excel preferred.      

Overview

• Course Syllabus
• Research papers
• Guide to discussions of research papers
• Other references

Homework assignments

1. ANOVA Review  (Read Hurlbert, 1984)
2. ANOVA model II & Nested ANOVA
3. Randomized Blocks ANOVA
4. Factorial Experiments & Planned Comparisons
5. Power Analysis
6. BACI Analyses
7. Principle Components Analysis
8. Correspondence analysis
9. Multidimensional scaling
10. Canonical discriminate analysis

Handouts

1. Writing up assignments
2. Research paper discussion leads
3. ANOVA Review (Field  pictures)
   • Underwood Chapter 7
4. Assumptions of ANOVA
   • Scheffe 1959
   • F-Max test
   • F-Table
5. ANOVA Models
6. ANOVA_nested
   • Hurlbert_table
7. ANOVA_repeated_measure
8. ANOVA_blocks
   • Hurlbert_interdispersion
9. ANOVA_factorial
   • Dungan 1986
10. ANOVA_planned comparisons
11. Power_Analysis
    • Power_Analysis2
12. BACI
    • Tissot & Hallacher 2000
    • Tissot and Hallacher 2003
    • Schroeter et al 1993 partial
13. Beyond BACI
14. Experimental Design
    • Eberhardt and Thomas 1991 short
    • ANOVA Design
    • ANCOVA
    • Sampling Data Sheet
15. PCA
    • Trawling
    • Cowries
    • Abalone Middens
16. CCA
    • Cowry_CCA
    • Stein et al. 1992
    • Tissot et al. 2007
17. CA
    • Pirtle 2005 MS_DCA
18. Canonical Correspondance Analysis
    • Ortiz & Tissot 2008

        Files:

• Presentations
• Minitab & Excel files
• SAS & PC-ORD files: using PC-ORD
  • Turtles PCA
  • Marine protected area canonical correlation analysis
  • Hawaii reef fish correspondence analysis
  • DCPP Intertidal zone correspondence analysis
  • Hawaii reef fish canonical correspondence analysis
  • Marine protected area discriminate analysis

 

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