Contact me: alan@alanfielding.co.uk
Alan Fielding
Some Statistics stuff
Coming soon (or possibly much later)- Statistics related content.
Statistics
I was involved with teaching statistics to Biology students for more than 30 years and during that time I devloped various materials which may be helpful. However, be warned, I am unlikely to update these much now that I no longer teach biostatistics. I also use a lot of statistics in my research, hopefully I can share things that I find useful.
The first resource is some web content whose development was partially funded by the Bioscience Centre of the HEA. These pages are related to multivariate statistics (opens in a new webpage/tab).
I am currently writing a text book on Statistics for Conservation Biologists with Ed Harris. It is aimed at final year undergraduates and post graduate students and will use R for all calculations. We hope to see it published in 2012.
Featured WebSite: Animated PCA
A Java applet by Steve Jachim, which uses graphics to illustrate what a PCA (Principal Components Analysis does - a big improvement on my first attempts. Steve suggests replying NO to Sun's 2D question.
Featured Website: PAST Software
PAST is tiny (runs from USB pen) and free. Although aimed at paleontologists, it has great potential for ecological analyses (Regression: Linear, lin-log, log-log, logistic; Diversity statistics, rarefaction, Similarity indices; Principal Components and Coordinates, Correspondence analysis with detrending, Cluster and Discriminant analysis; etc...
Another eagle posioned on a grouse moor. See a Guardian Newspaper article for details and a BBC new item to read about the main findings of our report.
Irish golden eagle success.
The Irish Golden Eagle re-introduction programme has seen its second and third golden eagle chicks fledged in wild.