BIOL 458 Biometry

Reading Assignments

All supplemental readings are available to be borrowed from the Reserve Reading Room at the J. Paul Leonard Library and are available electronically as Adobe pdf files via the Electronic Reserves web page of the SFSU library. Papers may be borrowed for 2 hours. When requesting papers in the Reserve book room, please request papers by the author's name(s). When obtaining articles from the Electronic Reserves, you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader (which can be downloaded free). Just search on Biol 458, or my name to be linked to the class readings.
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Aug 26 - Sept 9             Text:         Zar - CH. 1 - 6

                                          Reserve: Chamberlin
                                                            Platt
                                                            Connor and Simberloff

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Sept 14 - Oct 14            Text:         Zar - CH. 7 - 10

                                          Reserve: Kruskal
                                                            Diaconis and Efron
                                                            Zar
                                                            Peterman
                                                            Connor

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Oct  19 - Nov 11              Text:        Zar - CH. 11 -16

                                            Reserve: Chew
                                                             Jones
                                                              Hurlburt
                                                             Glass et al.
                                                             O'Brien and Kaiser
                                                             Day and Quinn

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Nov 16 - Dec 9                 Text:          Zar - CH. 17 - 20

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Bibliography

Chamberlin, T.C. 1890. The method of multiple working hypotheses. Science 15: 92 (reprinted in
       Science 148: 754-759.

Chew, V. 1976. Comparing treatment means: A compendium. Hortscience 11: 348-357.

Connor, E.F. and D. Simberloff. 1986. Competition, scientific method, and null models in ecology.
       American Scientist 74: 155-162.

Connor, E.F. 1986. Time series analysis of the fossil record. pp. 119-147. In, D.M. Raup and D.
        Jablonski (eds.) Patterns and Process in the History of Life. Springer-Verlag: Berlin.

Day, R.W. and G.P. Quinn. 1989. Comparisons of treatments after an analysis of variance in
        ecology. Ecological Monographs 59: 433-463.

Diaconis, P. and B. Efron. 1983. Computer-intensive methods in statistics. Scientific American
          248: 116-126.

Glass, G.V., P.D. Peckham, and J.R. Sanders. 1972. Consequences of failure to meet assumptions
        underlying the fixed effects analyses of variance and covariance. Review of Education
        Research. 42: 237-288.

Hurlburt, S.H. 1984. Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological field experiments. Ecological
        Monographs 54: 187-211.

Jones, D. 1984. The use, misuse, and role of multiple-comparison procedures in ecological and
        agricultural entomology. Environmental Entomology 13: 635-649.

Kruskal, W.H. 1978. Significance, tests of. pp. 944-958. In, W.H. Kruskal and J.M. Tanur.
       International Encyclopedia of Statistics. The Free Press: New York.

O'Brien, R.G. and M.K. Kaiser. 1985. MANOVA method for analyzing repeated measures designs:
        An extensive primer. Psychological Bulletin 97: 316-333.

Platt, J.R. 1964. Strong inference. Science 146: 347-353.

Peterman, R.M. 1990. Statistical power analysis can improve fisheries research and management.
       Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Science 47: 2-15.

Zar, J.H. 1982. Power and statistical significance in impact evaluation. Groundwater Monitoring and
        Research (Summer): 33-35.