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A study of the literature to which this essay is an introduction will convince the student that statistics have been applied to the most varied ecological problems, often needlessly, and sometimes on false assumptions. It is a literature remarkable for its prolixity, but from its pages there emerge methods which are new to biology and which prove valuable in the difficult study of plant distribution. It must be left to the future to decide in what measure these methods can advance botany.

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Ashby, E. Statistical ecology. Bot. Rev 2, 221–235 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02867930

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