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Scenario of Major Fruit Crops in Flood-Prone Areas in Eastern India: Case Study of Bihar
Flooding is a recurrent phenomenon in South Asian countries during the monsoon season. In the state of Bihar in eastern India, 55% of the geographical area is vulnerable to flood each year. Flood-tolerant frui...
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Ability of machine learning models to identify preferred habitat traits of a small indigenous fish (Chanda nama) in a large river of peninsular India
Physical and chemical parameters of river influence the habitat of fish species in aquatic ecosystems. Fish showed a complex relationship with different aquatic factors in river. Machine learning modeling is a...
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Introduction to R Software
R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a command line-driven program and runs on a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and Mac OS. It is an interpreter, i.e., the us...
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Chi-Square Test of Significance
Test of significance provides an objective procedure for distinguishing between whether the observed difference signifies any real difference among groups. It indicates whether observed differences between ass...
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Introduction to Electronic Spreadsheet and Microsoft Excel
Electronic spreadsheets have become essential management tools from financial management to natural resource management. In fisheries data management specifically in research, diversified data need to be proce...
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Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) and Design of Experiments
Many experiments in fisheries science involve more than two treatment groups. We must not use t-test to compare more than two groups because multiple t-tests performed on the same data set increase likelihood of ...
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Introduction to Graphics in R
Graphics is extremely useful for data exploration, visualization, analysis and presentation. Presentation of result of statistical analysis is essential for good report writing. Graphical presentation of resul...
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Analysis and Interpretation of Weight-Length Data of Fish
Most of the fisheries scientists regularly establish weight-length relationship. Typically, such work does not have merit for publication of any good scientific journal. However, fish species biodiversity is h...
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Concept of Sampling Methodologies and Their Applications
As complete enumeration of a population is very often untenable because of time, cost and various other constraints, a part of the population is studied to draw inferences on the population; and this process i...
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Basic Concept of Hypothesis Testing and Parametric Test
Statistical analysis is done by many ways, but the majority of biologists use the ‘classical’ statistics which involves testing of null hypothesis using experimental data. In this process we estimate the proba...
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Some Multivariate Analysis Techniques for Fisheries Data
Biological, physical, behavioural, social and educational phenomena are often characterized by multiple factors or variables. Therefore, any systematic attempt to understand them requires the examination of mu...
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Use of Non-parametric Test in Fisheries Data
Descriptive statistics usually relates only to summarize or characterize the data and presentation of figures (visual or conceptual). The descriptive statistics may be a mean, median, mode, variance, range, histo...
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Concept of Simple Correlation and Regression
Acorrelation coefficient (r) is a statistical measure of linear association between or among variables. Correlation can be either positive or negative and approach to zero that depends on the situation and the va...
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Nature and Sources of Data for Inland Fisheries Management
A couple of decades ago, strategic planning of inland fisheries management was mostly ‘knowledge-driven’, entailing information based on published literature, experiences in the field survey, flow of knowledge...
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Descriptive Statistics for Inland Fisheries Data
Statistics is basically a way of thinking about data that are variable. More specifically, statistics is a collection of methods for planning/designing studies or experiments, collecting/obtaining data and then.....
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Arsenic Bioaccumulation and Identification of Low-Arsenic-Accumulating Food Fishes for Aquaculture in Arsenic-Contaminated Ponds and Associated Aquatic Ecosystems
Arsenic-contaminated food including farmed fish is one of the main routes of human exposure. Fish farmed in contaminated environment accumulates arsenic in different tissues with great variability. Thus, it is...
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Role of Soil Microbes to Assess Soil Health
Maintaining healthy soils are necessary for develo** healthy ecosystems and sustainable agricultural production. It is widely accepted that soil health is a very important management tool to correct unproduc...
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Phytoplankton biomass in relation to flow dynamics: the case of a tropical river Mahanadi, India
This present study was conducted to extend our understanding on the relationship between Chlorophyll a (Chl a) concentration and hydrological parameters typically flow velocity, environmental variables and trophi...
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Modelling and Forecasting Marine Fish Production in Odisha Using Seasonal ARIMA Model
Auto-regressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) is one of the most popular models in time series data analysis. In the present study, total marine fish landings (quaterwise) in Odisha during the period 1985...
