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- Title
THE IMPORTANCE OF THE VARIANCE AROUND THE MEAN EFFECT SIZE OF ECOLOGICAL PROCESSES: COMMENT.
- Authors
Inouye, Brian D.
- Abstract
The article presents information on the importance of variance around the mean effect size of ecological processes. Most experiments ignore the potential for manipulating levels of variance as a treatment, and some experiments have unfortunately used treatments that confound changes in mean effect with changes in the variance around the mean. This confounding is difficult to avoid in treatments that manipulate binomial processes, such as disturbances, because the mean and variance of a binomial distribution are intimately linked through shared parameters. The article mainly concentrates its discussion on experimental designs based on analysis of variance as a tool for investigating the importance of variance around mean effect sizes.
- Subjects
ANALYSIS of variance; EXPERIMENTAL design; MATHEMATICAL statistics; MATHEMATICAL optimization; SCIENTIFIC method; STATISTICS
- Publication
Ecology, 2005, Vol 86, Issue 1, p262
- ISSN
0012-9658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1890/03-3180