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BIOL2022 L24 Rarefaction and Diversity
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1The process of comparing different sized subsamples to determine whether enough information has been collected is called:
- ARarefaction
- BSIMPER
- CParsimony
- D‘Strength of Evidence’
2True or false: Rarefaction standardises unequal sample sizes by effectively bringing the largest down to the smallest.
- ATrue
- BFalse
3True or false: Rarefaction standardises unequal sample sizes by effectively bringing the smallest up to the largest.
- ATrue
- BFalse
4Differentiating between accumulation and rarefaction curves (individual and sample-based):
- Accumulation: total # of spp during process of data collection
- Rarefaction: repeatedly subsampling [blank_start]________[blank_end] replacement from the data (progressive data reduction)- AWithout
- BWith
5Chao estimators are [blank_start]____________[blank_end] estimators for species richness.
- AParametric
- BNon-parametric
- CMetric
- DNon-metric
6What does this table describe?
- AA Classical approach
- BA Bayesian approach
7What does this table describe?
- AA Classical approach
- BA Bayesian approach
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- Module 3, Lecture 6 Headings: • Rarefaction • Bayesian approaches • Frequentists vs Bayesians
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- Michael Jardine
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- English
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