THE TRANSFORMATION OF LOCAL LESION COUNTS FOR STATISTICAL ANALYSIS
作者:
A. KLECZKOWSKI,
期刊:
Annals of Applied Biology
(WILEY Available online 1949)
卷期:
Volume 36,
issue 1
页码: 139-152
ISSN:0003-4746
年代: 1949
DOI:10.1111/j.1744-7348.1949.tb06404.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
An analysis of the frequency distribution of local lesions, produced by viruses on half‐leaves of a number of plants, shows that their standard error increases with increasing mean. Hence analysis of variance and statistical tests of significance should not be applied to lesion numbers unless they are suitably transformed. The transformation into logarithms over‐corrects so that the standard error decreases with increasing mean. A satisfactory transformation isy= log10(x+c), wherexis the number of lesions andcis a constant. A method is given of assessingcfor different experiments. Great accuracy is not needed; in an experiment discussed in detail a satisfactory transformation is obtained with any value forcbetween 15 and 80.On individual plants the numbers of lesions formed on half‐leaves are distributed more or less normally, whereas their distribution about the common mean for many plants is skew and ‘leptokurtic’. The distribution of the transformed numbers is almost normal, both for individual plants and about the common mean for a number
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