Tag: statistics
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Book Review: Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R
A brief review of Zuur et al.’s book “Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R”.
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Book Review: A Beginner’s Guide to R
A review of Zuur et al.’s “A Beginner’s Guide to R”. This book quickly and efficiently introduces you to the peculiarities of the R programming language so that you can soon move on to what you actually want to use R for.
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Book Review: R in a Nutshell
A brief review of R in a Nutshell by Joseph Adler. This book continues to serve as a useful reference that sits on my desk next to my computer, waiting to tell me the name of that command I’ve just forgotten.
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Calculating LT50 (median lethal temperature, aka LD50) quickly in R
Say you’ve got a bunch of survival/mortality data from an experiment. Maybe you exposed batches of snails to various high temperatures for a few hours, and recorded the number alive and dead in each batch at the end. Now you’d like to report the median lethal temperature (or perhaps a lethal dosage if you were…