Biometrics Information Pamphlets

Author: Ministry of Forests and Range
Subject: Forestry and Biometrics
Series: Biometrics Information Pamphlets

These documents are maintained by the Strategic Analysis section of the Research Branch. For more biometrics documents, see the Biometrics topic page.

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Index of Pamphlet Topics - January 2007 [PDF 69k]
Pamphlet 63 - Comparing Design-based and Model-based Inference: an Introduction - January 2007 [PDF 276k]
Pamphlet 62 - The Box-Cox Transformation - June 2005 [PDF 158k]
Pamphlet 61 - ANOVA: Power of Linear Contrasts - Interpreting the Non-centrality Parameter - March 2003 [PDF 231k]
Pamphlet 60 - MANOVA: Profile Analysis - an example using SAS - September 1999 [PDF 156k]
Pamphlet 59 - ANOVA: Coefficients for contrasts and means of incomplete factorial designs - September 1999 [PDF 113k]
Pamphlet 58 - On the presentation of statistical results: a synthesis - March 1998 [PDF 79k]
Pamphlet 57 - Interpreting Main Effects when a Two-way Interaction is Present - September 1997 [PDF 123k]
Pamphlet 56 - The Use of Indicator Variables in Non-linear Regression - April 1997 [PDF 119k]
Pamphlet 55 - Displaying Factor Relationships in Experiments - November 1996 [PDF 86k]
Pamphlet 54 - Incomplete Block Designs: Connected designs can be analysed - January 1996 [PDF 51k]
Pamphlet 53 - Balanced Incomplete Block (BIB) Study Designs - January 1996 [PDF 54k]
Pamphlet 52 - Post-hoc Power Analysis for ANOVA F-tests - October 1995 [PDF 70k]
Pamphlet 51 - Power Analysis and Sample/Size Calculations for CR and RB Designs with Subsampling - September 1995 [PDF 50k]
Pamphlet 50 - Power Analysis and Sample Sizes for Randomized Block Designs with Subsampling - September 1995 [PDF 49k]
Pamphlet 49 - Power Analysis and Sample Sizes for Completely Randomized Designs with Subsampling - September 1995 [PDF 68k]
Pamphlet 48 - ANOVA: Why a fixed effect is tested by its interaction with random effect - January 1995 [PDF 55k]
Pamphlet 47 - SAS: Adding Observations when Class Variables (e.g. species list) are Missing - April 1994 [PDF 40k]
Pamphlet 46 - GLM: Comparing regression lines - April 1994 [PDF 45k]
Pamphlet 45 - Calculating Contrast F-tests when SAS will not - May 1993 [PDF 67k]
Pamphlet 44 - What Do We Look for in a Working Plan? - May 1993 [PDF 39k]
Pamphlet 43 - Standard Error Formulas for Cluster Sampling (Unequal Cluster Sizes) - January 1993 [PDF 49k]
Pamphlet 42 - Labelling Curves in SAS/GRAPH - October 1992 [PDF 51k]
Pamphlet 41 - Power Analysis and Sample Size Determination for Contingency Table Tests - September 1992 [PDF 57k]
Pamphlet 40 - Finding the Expected Mean Squares and the Proper Error Terms with SAS - August 1992 [PDF 58k]
Pamphlet 39 - A Repeated Measures Example - June 1992 [PDF 53k]
Pamphlet 38 - Plotting Error Bars with SAS/GRAPH - April 1992 [PDF 45k]
Pamphlet 37 - A general description of hypothesis testing and power analysis - March 1992 [PDF 53k]
Pamphlet 36 - Contingency Tables and Log-linear Models - January 1992 [PDF 64k]
Pamphlet 35 - The Computation of Tree Shadow Lengths - January 1992 [PDF 87k]
Pamphlet 34 - When are blocks pseudo-replicates? November 1996 [PDF 53k]
Pamphlet 33 - Box Plots - September 1991 [PDF 62k]
Pamphlet 32 - Analysing a split-plot in time with the proper repeated measures ANOVA - August 1991 [PDF 55k]
Pamphlet 31 - ANOVA: The Linear Models behind the F-tests - June 1991 [PDF 67k]
Pamphlet 30 - Interpretation of probability p-values - March 1991 [PDF 51k]
Pamphlet 29 - Simple Regression: Confidence intervals for a predicted X-value - November 1990 [PDF 53k]
Pamphlet 28 - Simple regression with replication: testing for lack of fit - July 1990 [PDF 44k]
Pamphlet 27 - When the t-test and the F-test are equivalent - May 1990 [PDF 38k]
Pamphlet 26 - ANOVA: Equations for Linear and Quadratic Contrasts - March 1990 [PDF 41k]
Pamphlet 25 - ANOVA: The Mean Within Sums of Squares as an Average Variance - March 1990 [PDF 38k]
Pamphlet 24 - Reading WATFILE files into SAS - February 1990 [PDF 51k]
Pamphlet 23 - ANOVA: Contrasts viewed as correlation coefficients - October 1989 [PDF 36k]
Pamphlet 22 - ANOVA: Using a hand calculator to test a one-way ANOVA - October 1989 [PDF 33k]
Pamphlet 21 - What are Degrees of Freedom? - August 1989 [PDF 37k]
Pamphlet 20 - Rearranging Raw Data Files using SAS - July 1989 [PDF 35k]
Pamphlet 19 - ANOVA: Approximate or Pseudo F-tests - June 1989 [PDF 45k]
Pamphlet 18 - Multiple Regression: Selecting the best subset - May 1989 [PDF 45k]
Pamphlet 17 - What is the Design? - April 1989 [PDF 38k]
Pamphlet 16 - ANOVA: Contrasts viewed as t-tests - March 1989 [PDF 33k]
Pamphlet 15 - Using SAS to obtain probability values for F-, t- and X2-statistics - March 1989 [PDF 30k]
Pamphlet 14 - ANOVA: Factorial designs with a separate control - January 1989 [PDF 30k]
Pamphlet 13 - Analysis of Covariance: Comparing Adjusted Means - November 1988 [PDF 49k]
Pamphlet 12 - Determining Polynomial Contrast Coefficients - November 1988 [PDF 36k]
Pamphlet 11 - Sample Sizes: for one mean - August 1988 [PDF 38k]
Pamphlet 10 - Results of Biometrics Questionnaire - July 1988 [PDF 37k]
Pamphlet 9 - Reading Category variables in statistics software - April 1988 [PDF 26k]
Pamphlet 8 - Standard errors for predicted values from Multiple Regression - April 1988 [PDF 45k]
Pamphlet 7 - Logistic Regression Analysis - Model statements in PROC CATMOD - April 1988 [PDF 26k]
Pamphlet 6 - ANOVA: using Plot means - April 1988 [PDF 36k]
Pamphlet 5 - Understanding Replication and Pseudo-replication - April 1988 [PDF 32k]
Pamphlet 4 - ANOVA using SAS: Specifying error terms - February 1988 [PDF 27k]
Pamphlet 3 - ANOVA using SAS: Specifying error terms - April 1988 [PDF 28k]
Pamphlet 2 - The importance of replication in Analysis of Variance - February 1988 [PDF 28k]
Pamphlet 1 - Producing ASCII files with SAS - February 1988 [PDF 29k]

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Updated December 2007