Weeks 4–8 practicals: resources

1 Useful documents for Report 1

• Here are two examples: template1 and template2 for Excel group data collection. Generate and complete your group’s own Excel file (could be from a GoogleSheets file) before Week 8 prac.
• Here is a guide to choosing appropriate stats and a guide to using the stats program SPSS
• Practice Excel file for ANOVA or Randomised Block design/GLM and associated paper.
• Practice Excel file for linear regression (or correlation) and associated paper.
• Practice Excel file for logistic regression and associated paper
• And an interesting article called “The importance of stupidity in scientific research”: directed at PhD students but also, I think, relevant to our Module projects where you take a step into the unknown. Hope you enjoy it.

2 BIRD GROUPS ONLY

Important Animal Ethics information

Please use this monitoring sheet for your data collection.

As part of the Animal Ethics requirements each bird group must submit:

1. at least one example of this completed monitoring sheet, along with
2. a pdf document summarising (a) the sites visited (names with suburb, and if possible GPS coords and site photos), and (b) the total number of (i) native birds and (ii) invasive birds you estimate you have counted across all your sites.