Re: misusing stats: examples

2000-05-05 Thread V. Partridge
Look up papers by Stuart Hurlburt, who points up commonly-made errors in ecological research. Two of note are his paper on pseudoreplication (in Ecological Monographs, circa 1989, I think) and "The Spatial Distribution of the Montane Unicorn" (I don't recall the journal). V.

Re: misusing stats: examples

2000-05-08 Thread V. Partridge
Found references to two of Hurlbert's papers: Hurlbert, S. H. 1984. Pseudoreplication and the design of ecological field experiments. Ecological Monographs 54:187-211. Hurlbert, S. H. 1990. Spatial distribution of the montane unicorn. Oikos. 58: 257-271. "V. Partridge" wrote:

null distribution for Mann-Kendall

2001-11-09 Thread V Partridge
How does one compute the null distribution for the Mann-Kendall test of monotone trend? The table in Hollander Wolfe has lots of gaps in it, and my sample size is too small for a normal approximation. Thank you. Valerie =