Critique of Pure Statistics
- Author(s)
- Gert Bachmann
- Abstract
This book is for biologists and other system analysts struggling with big-data and small-data set statistics. The approach of the authors, having instructed students and consulted colleagues for two decades, is not to explain statistics anew. Rather, we aim to put forward a praxis oriented method to stepwise apply statistics according to research questions asked, to provide a guideline for efficient data evaluation and the decisions to make in the process - especially in dimensional reduction (ordination). Thus these sections are the most extensive. A flexible general approach for efficient data mining, quantifying, visualising and pre-modelling based on a sound strategy, learned by experience shall be presented. Also, a critical consideration of social phenomena and traditions in statistics application and a listing of methods and tests that are felt to be missing is attempted. As the author’s background is ecological, many examples will be from systems ecology and biochemistry.
- Organisation(s)
- Volume
- 1
- No. of pages
- 115
- Publication date
- 10-2017
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 106001 General biology
- Portal url
- https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/en/publications/critique-of-pure-statistics(00d02d43-d953-4f9c-9789-9c800755b211).html