For a good introductory text, I would suggest "Experiments in Ecology: Their Logical Design and Interpretation Using Analysis of Variance" by A.J. Underwood. Though a bit old at this point, it is still a pretty good starting point.
-david ____________________________________________________________________________ _ David Gillett, Ph.D. Ecologist Southern California Coastal Water Research Project 3535 Harbour Blvd, Suite 110 Costa Mesa, CA 92626 -----Original Message----- From: Ecological Society of America: grants, jobs, news [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Fuller Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 6:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ECOLOG-L] Subject: Re: Statistics Book for Ecologist Hi Apurba, I currently teach statistics to graduate students in forestry and ecology. Here are my suggestions. I assume you want to learn standard frequentist approaches. But I encourage you to go beyond "p-values", and learn to use likelihood methods, and even Bayesian approaches. As an ecology student, your goal is not to become a stats expert. But you need to understand enough stats, so that when you go to a stats professor/professional for advice, you can ask intelligent questions and understand his/her answers. Your school library probably has these books: ESSENTIALS "Ecological Methodology", by Charles J. Krebs (Covers experimental design, field methods, data analysis, and much more. Easy to read, very useful) "Biostatistical Analysis", by Jerrold H. Zar (One of the best "introduction to statistics" books. Covers all the standard frequentist tests. Zar has a nice writing style, but the topic is technical (no way around that). Reading Zar will give you a much deeper understanding then you can get from Gotelli and Ellison (which after all, is a primer, not a textbook). "Introductory Statistics with R", by Peter Dalgaard. (If you need to learn a stats program, you might as well learn one that is free! The R package is increasingly popular among ecologists. This is the best book on how to use R to perform standard frequentist tests.) MORE ADVANCED "Ecological Models and Data in R", by Benjamin Bolker. Bolker focuses on data analysis, data organization, and statistical modeling and likelihood methods. He also shows how to do them in R (with lots of examples). Good introduction to general linear models and stochastic methods.) Good luck! Mike ========================== Michael M Fuller, Ph.D. Faculty of Forestry 33 Willcocks St. Toronto, ON M5S 3B3 PHONE: (416) 978-3329 EMAIL: [email protected] WEB: www.tiem.utk.edu/~mmfuller > Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:31:09 -0400 > From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Apurba_Barman?= <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: Statistics Book for Ecologist > > Hi All: > > Can anyone suggest me a book on statistics, which is easy to read and > understand, also cover the details of designing experiments, different kind > of tests used in the field of ecology? > > Currently I have "A Primer of Ecological Statistics" by Gotelli and Ellison. > > I appreciate your valuable feedback. > > Thank you. > > Apurba
