Chapter 2. Basic Statistical Methods
- Øyvind Hammer,
- David A.T. Harper
Published Online: 30 NOV 2007
DOI: 10.1002/9780470750711.ch2
Copyright © 2006 by Øyvind Hammer and David A.T. Harper
Book Title
Paleontological Data Analysis
Additional Information
How to Cite
Hammer, Ø. and Harper, D. A.T. (eds) (2007) Basic Statistical Methods, in Paleontological Data Analysis, Blackwell Publishing, Malden, MA, USA. doi: 10.1002/9780470750711.ch2
Publication History
- Published Online: 30 NOV 2007
- Published Print: 1 NOV 2005
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405115445
Online ISBN: 9780470750711
- Summary
- Chapter
Keywords:
- statistical distributions;
- shapiro-wilk test;
- kolmogorov-smirnov test;
- kruskal-wallis test;
- linear regression
Summary
This chapter contains section titled:
Introduction
Statistical distributions
Shapiro-Wilk test for normal distribution
F test for equality of variances
Student's t test and Welch test for equality of means
Mann-Whitney U test for equality of medians
Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for equality of distribution
Bootstrapping and permutation
One-way ANOVA
Kruskal -Wallis test
Linear correlation
Non-parametric tests for correlation
Linear regression
Reduced major axis regression
Chi-square test