Statistics, Costs and Rationality in Ecological Inference
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
3-1992
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-5347(92)90249-B
Abstract
The so-called ‘null hypothesis’ debate in ecology opened a statistical Pandora's Box. Ecologists were forced to question whether or not decades of pattern analysis had been productive. Over the past few years, the debate has expanded beyond the role of different kinds of statistical hypothesis to include the importance of different types of statistical error. Our objective in this article is to show how trends governing ecological inferences under uncertainty appear to be changing as ecologists become increasingly aware o f the potential importance of statistical errors.
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Citation / Publisher Attribution
Statistics, Cost and Rationality in Ecological Inference, v. 7, issue 3, p. 96-99
Scholar Commons Citation
Shrader-Frechette, Kristin S. and McCoy, Earl D., "Statistics, Costs and Rationality in Ecological Inference" (1992). Integrative Biology Faculty and Staff Publications. 214.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/bin_facpub/214