Paleontological Data Analysis
Published on 8. May 2008
368 pages
978-1-4051-7294-3 (ISBN)
Description
During the last 10 years numerical methods have begun to dominatepaleontology. These methods now reach far beyond the fields ofmorphological and phylogenetic analyses to embrace biostratigraphy,paleobiogeography, and paleoecology. Paleontological Data Analysisexplains the key numerical techniques in paleontology, and themethodologies employed in the software packages now available.
* Following an introduction to numerical methodologies inpaleontology, and to univariate and multivariate techniques(including inferential testing), there follow chapters onmorphometrics, phylogenetic analysis, paleobiogeography andpaleoecology, time series analysis, and quantitativebiostratigraphy
* Each chapter describes a range of techniques in detail, withworked examples, illustrations, and appropriate casehistories
* Describes the purpose, type of data required, functionality,and implementation of each technique, together with notes ofcaution where appropriate
* The book and the accompanying PAST software package (seewww.blackwellpublishing.com/hammer) are importantinvestigative tools in a rapidly developing field characterized bymany exciting new discoveries and innovative techniques
* An invaluable tool for all students and researchers involved inquantitative paleontology
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"I would definitely encourage students, later-year undergraduate orgraduate, embarking on palaeontological research involving morethan the most trivial statistics to buy this book, not just rely onthe library copy." Newsletter of Micropalaeontology 'I warmly encourage all graduate students, post-docs, andacademics in palaeontology to acquire a copy - and to useit.' Geology Today "All in all this is to my mind and excellent book." Geological MagazineMore details
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Persons
Dr Øyvind Hammer is currently a Researcher inPaleontology at the Geological Museum in Oslo, and in Geobiology atthe research center "Physics of Geological Processes".In addition to a number of research publications, he is the authorof the popular data-analysis software PAST.
David Harper is a leading expert on fossil brachiopodsand numerical methods in palaeontology. He is Professor ofPalaeontology in the University of Copenhagen, where he iscurrently Head of Geology in the Natural History Museum of Denmark.He has published over 10 books and monographs, including a coupleof influential textbooks, as well as over 250 scientific articlesand, together with Øyvind Hammer, the widely-used softwarepackage PAST. His time is divided between collection management,exhibition work, research and some teaching.
Content
Preface.
Acknowledgments.
1 Introduction.
1.1 The nature of paleontological data.
1.2 Advantages and pitfalls of paleontological data analysis.
1.3 Software.
2 Basic statistical methods.
2.1 Introduction.
2.2 Statistical distributions.
2.3 Shapiro-Wilk test for normal distribution.
2.4 F test for equality of variances.
2.5 Student's t test and Welch test for equality of means.
2.6 Mann-Whitney U test for equality of medians.
2.7 Kolmogorov-Smirnov test for equality of distributions.
2.8 Permutation and resampling.
2.9 One-way ANOVA.
2.10 Kruskal-Wallis test.
2.11 Linear correlation.
2.12 Non-parametric tests for correlation.
2.13 Linear regression.
2.14 Reduced major axis regression.
2.15 Nonlinear curve fitting.
2.16 Chi-square test.
3 Introduction to multivariate data analysis.
3.1 Approaches to multivariate data analysis.
3.2 Multivariate distributions.
3.3 Parametric multivariate tests.
3.4 Non-parametric multivariate tests.
3.5 Hierarchical cluster analysis.
3.5 K-means cluster analysis.
4 Morphometrics.
4.1 Introduction.
4.2 The allometric equation.
4.3 Principal components analysis (PCA).
4.4 Multivariate allometry.
4.5 Discriminant analysis for two groups.
4.6 Canonical variate analysis (CVA).
4.7 MANOVA.
4.8 Fourier shape analysis.
4.9 Elliptic Fourier analysis.
4.10 Eigenshape analysis.
4.11 Landmarks and size measures.
4.12 Procrustean fitting.
4.13 PCA of landmark data.
4.14 Thin-plate spline deformations.
4.15 Principal and partial warps.
4.16 Relative warps.
4.17 Regression of partial warp scores.
4.18 Disparity measures.
4.19 Point distribution statistics.
4.20 Directional statistics.
Case study: The ontogeny of a Silurian trilobite.
5 Phylogenetic analysis.
5.1 Introduction.
5.2 Characters.
5.3 Parsimony analysis.
5.4 Character state reconstruction.
5.5 Evaluation of characters and tree topologies.
5.6 Consensus trees.
5.7 Consistency index.
5.8 Retention index.
5.9 Bootstrapping.
5.10 Bremer support.
5.11 Stratigraphical congruency indices.
5.12 Phylogenetic analysis with Maximum Likelihood.
Case study: The systematics of heterosporous ferns.
6 Paleobiogeography and paleoecology.
6.1 Introduction.
6.2 Diversity indices.
6.3 Taxonomic distinctness.
6.4 Comparison of diversity indices.
6.5 Abundance models.
6.6 Rarefaction.
6.7 Diversity curves.
6.8 Size-frequency and survivorship curves.
6.9 Association similarity indices for presence/absence data.
6.10 Association similarity indices for abundance data.
6.11 ANOSIM and NPMANOVA.
6.12 Correspondence analysis.
6.13 Principal Coordinates analysis (PCO).
6.14 Non-metric Multidimensional Scaling (NMDS).
6.15 Seriation.
Case study: Ashgill brachiopod paleocommunities from East China.
7 Time series analysis.
7.1 Introduction.
7.2 Spectral analysis.
7.3 Autocorrelation.
7.4 Cross-correlation.
7.5 Wavelet analysis.
7.6 Smoothing and filtering.
7.7 Runs test.
Case study: Sepkoski's generic diversity curve for the Phanerozoic.
8 Quantitative biostratigraphy.
8.1 Introduction.
8.2 Parametric confidence intervals on stratigraphic ranges.
8.3 Non-parametric confidence intervals on stratigraphic ranges.
8.4 Graphic correlation.
8.5 Constrained optimisation.
8.6 Ranking and scaling.
8.7 Unitary Associations.
8.8 Biostratigraphy by ordination.
8.9 What is the best method for quantitative biostratigraphy?.
Appendix A: Plotting techniques.
Appendix B: Mathematical concepts and notation.
References.
Index
