A comment on testing for a decline in upper Cretaceous dinosaur diversity |
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Authors: | Solow A R |
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Institution: | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts 02543, USA. asolow@whoi.edu |
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Abstract: | A common problem in ecology is to determine whether the diversity of a biological community has changed over time or in response to a disturbance. This involves testing the null hypothesis that diversity is constant against the alternative hypothesis that it has changed. As the power of this test may be low, Fritsch and Hsu (1999, Biometrics 55, 1300-1305) proposed reversing the null and alternative hypothesis. Here, I return to the original formulation and point out that power can be improved by adopting a parametric model for relative abundances and by testing against an ordered alternative. |
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Keywords: | Ordered alternative Parametric bootstrap Truncated geometric distribution |
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