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Biodiversity Data Analysis: Testing Statistical Hypotheses

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The tables are not complete, but they do provide cricital values for Probability (P) values of 0.1,<br />

0.5, and 0.01. You are unlikely to need other values, as these will tell you whether to accept or<br />

reject your null hypothesis.<br />

Table 4. Critical values for the Mann-Whitney U test. The vertical grey column (n1)<br />

represents the number of samples in your first data set, while the horizontal grey row<br />

(n2) represents the number of samples in your second data set. There are no degrees<br />

of freedom in this table of critical values.<br />

<strong>Biodiversity</strong> – <strong>Data</strong> <strong>Analysis</strong> 8

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