Statistical Ecology
Stat 555, Fall 2007

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

    Main text: Ramsey, F. and D. Schafer. 2002. The Statistical Sleuth. Duxbury,
     Pacific  Grove, CA.

    Supplementary Texts:

1. Underwood, A. J. 1997. Experiments in Ecology: their logical design and interpretation using analysis of variance. Cambridge University Press,  Cambridge, U
2. Pimentel, R.A. 1979. Morphometrics: The Multivariate Analysis of Biological Data, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, Dubuque, Iowa, USA.
3. Dillon, W. R. and M. Goldstein. 1984. Multivariate Analysis: Methods  and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, NY
4. Plus papers from the scientific literature   

Prerequisites for the course:

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

Overview

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

Homework assignments

1. ANOVA Review
2. ANOVA model II
3. Nested ANOVA
4. Factorial Experiments
5. Power Analysis
6. BACI
7. Principle Components Analysis

Handouts

1. Writing up assignments

        Files:

• Presentations
• Minitab & Excel files
• SAS
  • Turtles
  • Hawaii reef fish correspondence analysis
  • DCPP Intertidal zone correspondence analysis
  • Marine protected area discriminate analysis
  • Marine protected area canonical correlation analysis

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