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No doubt you’ve done some stats before—probably in high school and at university, even though it might have been some time ago. I’m not expecting you to remember all of it, all of it, and in this Chapter you will find some important lessons to reinforce before we get cracking.
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Warton, D.I. (2022). “Stats 101” Revision. In: Eco-Stats: Data Analysis in Ecology. Methods in Statistical Ecology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88443-7_1
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