The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied
Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina …

In 1982, I published several issues of a samdizat scholarly journal called Random ization
with the aid of an 8-bit, I-MH personal computer with 48K of memory (upgraded to 64K later …

Hidden Markov models—most often abbreviated to the acronym “HMMs”—are one of the
most successful statistical modelling ideas that have came up in the last forty years: the use …

Fungi play key roles in ecosystems as mutualists, pathogens, and decomposers. Current
estimates of global species richness are highly uncertain, and the importance of stochastic …

Untitled Page 1 Page 2 Phillip I. Good Resampling Methods A Practical Guide to Data Analysis
Third Edition Birkhäuser Boston • Basel • Berlin Page 3 Phillip I. Good 205 West Utica Avenue …

The introduction of permutation tests by RA Fisher relaxed the paramet ric structure
requirement of a test statistic. For example, the structure of the test statistic is no longer …

Background Vegetation change in high latitude tundra ecosystems is expected to accelerate
due to increased wildfire activity. High-severity fires increase the availability of mineral soil …

Permutation tests are a paradox of old and new. Permutation tests pre‐date most traditional
parametric statistics, but only recently have become part of the mainstream discussion …

We explored the recent (1969–1996) dynamics of fish communities within Lake Erie, a
system formerly degraded by eutrophication and now undergoing oligotrophication owing to …

Ecological perturbations can either be necessary for maintaining tropical forest diversity or
responsible for its decline, depending on the scale, nature, and frequency of the …