Statistics & Probability
Links
"To call in the statistician after the experiment
is done may be no more than asking him to perform a postmortem examination:
he may be able to say what the experiment died of."
- Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher (1890-1962), Indian Statistical
Congress, Sankhya, ca 1938.
Contents:
1. General Resources
2. Statistical Computing
3. Statistics & Probability: Some
Cautions & Controversies
4. Statistical Issues in Botany
General Resources
Lexicon of
Statistical Modelling
Internet
Statistical Resources
Oliver Schabenberger's statistical consulting page
(excellent resources, especially for implementing analyses in
SAS)
A New View of Statistics
(Although I haven't yet had a chance too go through this site in detail,
it appears to be an excellent wide-ranging discussion of statistical concepts)
Quantitative
Methods for Resource Managers and Field Biologists (course notes:
nice overview of statistical methods and issues in field biology)
Statistical Computing
StatLib
UCLA statistical computing
resources
S-Plus
Help (my favorite statistics software)
SAS
software
FloraMap (software for predicting
plant distributions based upon climate data and known records)
Statistics and Probability: Some
Cautions and Controversies
Hypothesis testing & p-values
1. "The insignificance
of statistical significance testing"
2. Understanding
P-values (good links)
3. "P-values
versus confidence intervals in statistical inference"
(a word to the wise by Dr. Jason Hsu, from whom
I was priviledged to take courses at the Ohio State University Department
of Statistics)
Pseudoreplication
1. Pseudoreplication
and subsampling
2. "Logic
of experiments in ecology: Is pseudoreplication a pseudoissue?"
by L. Oksanen (published in Oikos 94(1):27-38)
3. "Pseudoreplication:
a sine qua non for regional ecology" by W.H. Hargrove and J.
Pickering
Advantages of fitting a statistical model to one's data rather than
visa versa:
"Some
statistical problems associated with biological assessment - implications
and solutions"
(an example of using the negative
binomial distribution to model biological survey count data)
Schools of thought in statistics and probability (Frequentism,
Likelihood, objective Bayesiansism, and subjective Bayesianism)
1. The
Nature of Scientific Evidence
2. "Could Fisher,
Jeffreys, and Neyman have agreed on testing?"(by Dr. James O. Berger,
Duke University)
3. "Facts
versus Factions: The use and abuse of subjectivity in scientific
research" (by Robert Matthews. Provides an subjective Bayesian
perspective and a very interesting discussion of subjectivity in science)
4. Probability theory as extended
logic (very interesting and thought-provoking site; provides an objective
Bayesian perspective)
5. "Resurrecting
logical probability"(Related to the previous link. by Dr. James
Franklin, University of New South Wales, Australia)
6. "Beyond
the significance test controversy: Prime time for Bayes?"
7. Why Likelihood?
(Likelihood school perspective on statistical evidence.)
Statistical Issues in Botany
"Deconstructing
Reconstruction: When are the results
of parsimony and statistical phylogenetic analysis genuine advances?"
(A very interesting and cautionary talk by Dr. Richard Zander on the serious
problems associationed with current methods of phylogenetic tree estimation)
Last updated
October 16, 2002