Statistics and Ecology Flashcards
1
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Spearman’s rank correlation
A
a statistical tool used to test whether two variables are significantly correlated
2
Q
Student’s t-test
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a statistical test that allows you to judge whether any difference between the means of the two sets of data is statistically significant
3
Q
chi squared test
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a statistical test that enables you to determine whether there is a statistically significant association between the distribution of two species
4
Q
null hypothesis
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the hypothesis that any differences between data sets are the result of chance
5
Q
significant
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not due to chance
