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Quantitative training overhaul needed in ecology

Ecologists are collecting more data than ever before, but many still lack confidence in the quantitative skills needed to make sense of it, according to a new paper.

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Ecologists are collecting more data than ever before, but many still lack confidence in the quantitative skills needed to make sense of it, according to a new paper. The paper, "A century of inertia in quantitative ecology education" , published in Methods in Ecology and Evolution , explores why efforts to improve statistics and data analysis training in ecology have stalled for more than a century.

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