When theory and practice collide: The use and abuse of statistics in bioacoustics

Autor: René‐Guy Busnel, Leslie A. Wheeler
Rok vydání: 1987
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Zdroj: The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 81:S34-S34
ISSN: 0001-4966
DOI: 10.1121/1.2024204
Popis: All of us have been guilty of favoring statistical procedures that support our hypotheses. This is fine if our hypotheses are correct. But what if they are false? No matter. By use of appropriate statistical procedures, applied in just the right way, even the saggiest of hypotheses can be propped up. This paper explains how. As an example, the usefulness of 14 useless acoustic features in the differentiation and recognition of lovebird calls will be shown statistically in two different ways.
Databáze: OpenAIRE