Intro to Quantitative Ecology

Week 11 Pre-Class Assignment

Key topics

Readings

These questions cover materials in:

• Gardener chapter 13

Questions

Question 1

Which of the following pieces of information do you need to include when you present a numerical data summary?

citation dispersion distribution kurtosis center skew

Question 2

Which of the following pieces of information must you include when you present a the results of a statistical test in a publication?

critical value degrees of freedom distribution test statistic p-value quantity

Question 3

Which of the following plot types is most appropriate for illustrating a correlation?

boxplot scatterplot histogram barplot pie chart

Question 4

Which of the following plot types is most appropriate for illustrating the distribution of data?

boxplot scatterplot histogram barplot pie chart

Question 5

• Describe two ways I could improve this scatterplot:

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