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Analysis
The practice of examining information to determine what conclusions it indicates,. The information observed in analysis depends on the type of analysis being conducted. For example, technical analysis uses statistics to determine future price movements of securities, while fundamental analysis looks at indicators of a company's intrinsic value. Analysis may involve qualitative or quantitative information, or both. Most forms of analysis have both strengths and weaknesses.


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Univariate ANCOVA follow-up tests with Bonferroni adjustments were used when the MANCOVA test was significant to identify specific differences in outcomes by group.
Since shell volume is a good predictor of oyster density and shell is not evenly distributed within these habitats, all subsequent ANOVA and ANCOVA analyses do not include patent tongs where values of zero were recorded for shell volume (total, brown, black) or density of live oysters.
We used ANCOVA because different snakes were observed on different days (which varied in environmental temperatures) and we suspected that environmental temperature would be an important covariate affecting snake body temperature.
 
 
 
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