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A Population Assessment of the Uca minax species at Spermaceti Cove on Sandy Hook, New Jersey
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| A male Uca minax fiddler crab (Michael Rosenberg) |
Bri Astorino
Ms. McDonald and Mr. Zrada
Directed Field Research
Period 5/6
Statistical Methods
Statistical Methods As this is a longitudinal study, many data sets over the years must be analyzed in order to prove or disprove the hypothesis. The 2017-2018 data set will be compared to the baseline data set that was compiled between 2016 and 2017. As the years progress and this project continues to be conducted, more and more data will be compiled, allowing the conclusions to the experiment to be backed by more data. Normal distribution will be used in order to see if there are any outliers in the data, or any unusually high or low counts. These outliers have the potential to throw off the data analysis. Standard deviation and variance alike will be useful when determining either the spread or the closeness of the data points. A higher standard deviation means that there is more spread among the data, decreasing the potential for correlation among the data set. This indicates that there would be a smaller chance of a trend among the data. Variance is the distance each data po...
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