Dear Dr. Neufeld, Having recently taken a course on experimental design in ecology and written a term paper on the use of multivariate statistics, I cannot recommend Gotelli and Ellison's "A Primer of Ecological Statistics" enough. Both of them are the clearest statistics writers I have ever come across - they explain everything in detail, without jargon, and in the context of ecological experimentation. I also advise you to be careful when employing multivariate statistics, for the assumptions in stepwise modeling are hard to meet and may lead to erroneous conclusions- watch out for multicollinearity and consider constructing artifical neural networks or using Bayesian analysis instead. Best, Anastasia
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:12 PM, Howie Neufeld <[email protected]>wrote: > Dear All - I confess to having last taken multivariate statistics back in > 1977, but to have used them very infrequently since then. Thus, I am not up > on the latest texts for this discipline. > Therefore, I would like to ask if anyone can recommend a recent, but VERY > BASIC introductory text for multivariate analysis, perhaps with an > ecological emphasis? I would like to emphasize the "VERY BASIC" aspect of > my request. Most texts that I have perused, I openly confess, are beyond > me. I need to start at the beginning, again. > And dare I ask (or even want to know!) if there is a Multivariate for > Dummies out there? > Thanks! > Howie Neufeld > > -- > Dr. Howard S. Neufeld, Professor > Department of Biology > 572 Rivers Street > Appalachian State University > Boone, NC 28608 > > email: [email protected] > departmental webpage: > http://www.biology.appstate.edu/faculty/neufeldhs.htm > personal webpage: http://www.appstate.edu/~neufeldhs/index.html > > Tel: 828-262-2683 > Fax: 828-262-2127 > -- Anastasia (Asya) Rahlin Brown University '12 cell: 847-962-6775 [email protected]
