Q1_1:Symmetrical, normal
Q1_2a:2.025882
Q1_2b:0.483626
Q1_3:0.03534812
Q2_1:To estimate populations
Q2_2:Symmetrical, normal but with an outlier
Q2_3:Y
Q2_4:71.66053
Q2_5:26.35673
Q2_6:4.275626
Q2_7:8.380072
Q2_8:Skewed and with an outlier
Q2_9:Y
Q2_10_1:71.66053
Q2_10_2:68.72973
Q2_10_3:66.7
Q2_10_4:66.6
Q2_10_5:694.677
Q2_10_6:378.5033
Q2_10_7:26.35673
Q2_10_8:19.45516
Q2_10_9:32.375
Q2_10_10:33.2
Q2_10:Means, variances/standard deviations are sensitive to outliers whereas medians and ranges are more robust
Q3_1_1:17.114545
Q3_1_2:4.733333
Q3_1_3:14.000000
Q3_1_4:142.40553
Q3_1_5:11.97067
Q3_1_6:68.06857
Q3_1_7:11.933379
Q3_1_8:3.459865
Q3_1_9:8.250368
Q3_1_a:N
Q3_2a:N
Q3_2b:Strong evidence that two of the three populations are skewed.
Q3_2b:Y
Q3_3a:Y
Q3_3b:Y
Q3_4:Not really, but keep in mind that non-normality could be preventing relationships from standing out.
Q3_5a:Y
Q3_5b:Y
Q3_5c:N
Q4_1_a:There is a significant difference in the population mean metabolic rate of male and female breeding northern fulmars
Q4_1_b:There is no significant difference in the population mean metabolic rate of male and female breeding northern fulmars
Q4_1_c:The population mean metabolic rate of male breeding fulmars equals the population mean metabolic rate of female breeding fulmars
Q4_2:12
Q4_3a:1.782288
Q4_3b:2.178813
Q4_4_1:Normality
Q4_4_2:Boxplots for each group
Q4_4_3:Homogeneity of variance
Q4_4_4:Examining boxplots for each group, plot of mean vs variance, and residual plot
Q4_4_5:Independent observations
Q4_4_6:Random, unbiased sampling
Q4_5a:N
Q4_5b:N
Q4_6a:0.7732
Q4_6b:10.468
Q4_6c:0.4565
q4_7:4
Q4_7a:0.7732
Q4_7b:10.468
Q4_7c:0.4565
Q5_1:Paired t-test since observations are not independent. The observations are paired - each of the conditions was measured on each spider, rather than have a separate spider for each condition.
q5_3:4
Q5_3a:0.9654
Q5_3b:16
Q5_3c:0.3487
q5_4:2
Q5_4a:2.1482
Q5_4b:16
Q5_4c:0.04735
Q6_1:N
Q6_2a:That the sum ranks are the same
Q6_2b:That the observations are all independent and unbiased
Q6_3a:Reject the null hypothesis that the rank means are equal
Q6_3b:There is a significant difference between the population mass of male and female breeding fulmars