Intro to Quantitative Ecology

Week 07 Pre-Class Assignment

Readings

These questions cover materials in:

• Gardener chapter 10

Questions

Question 1

Multiple choice: 1 pt

You conduct a plant growth experiment with three plant watering treatments (low, medium, and high). At the end of your experiment, you measure the plant heights and graph them using a boxplot:

Which is the most appropriate test?

select the best answer t-test U-test Analysis of Variance Kruskal Wallis Normal distribution post-hoc test

Question 2

Multiple choice: 1 pt

You conduct a plant growth experiment with three plant watering treatments (low, medium, and high).

Your initial test for differences found a significant result (p < 0.05) and now you want to know which specific water treatments were different from each other.

Which is the most appropriate test?

select the best answer t-test U-test Analysis of Variance Kruskal Wallis Normal distribution post-hoc test

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