Book ID: 92909
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                
                                                                    
Zuur, Alain F., Elena N. Ineo and Graham M. Smith
                                                                    
                                                                
                                                            
                                                                 Analysing Ecological Data. 2007. (Statistics for Biology and Health). XXVI, 672 p. gr8vo. Hardcover.
                                                            
                                                            
                                                                                                                            
                                                                    Provides a practical introduction to analysing ecological data usingreal data sets collected as part of postgraduate ecological studies orresearch projects. The first part of the book gives a largely non-mathematical introduction to data exploration, univariate methods, multivariate analysis, time series analysis, and spatial statistics. Thesecond part provides 17 case studies, mainly written together withbiologists who attended courses given by the first authors. The casestudies include topics ranging from terrestrial ecology to marinebiology.