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Demographics and food waste trends of Common Ground Garden CSA members in Central Minnesota
Get PDFThe Common Ground Garden is a ministry of the Sisters of the Order of Saint Benedict, and provides CSA produce shares for 18 weeks to community members. A summer research project was conducted to evaluate the general demographics and food waste habits of members of Common Ground. Access to fresh, in-season produce is a struggle in many parts of the country, and this pilot study was designed to better understand the demographics, vegetable consumption, and food waste behaviors of the members of this particular CSA. Investigating the accessibility of local agriculture and CSA programs, as well as the health demographics and dietary habits of members provides valuable information on the efficacy of an increasingly popular vegetable source
A Quick Review of Statistical Thinking (Second Edition)
No full textA Quick Review of Statistical Thinking (QRST) is for students who have taken introductory statistics and need a quick review as they move forward with their own research or senior project, begin an honors thesis, take advanced statistics courses, review for the MCAT, or start graduate school. It briefly covers the topics in a typical undergraduate statistics course. The only computation covered is the standard deviation. My goal was to condense the material in the typical undergraduate statistics course into a short book that could be reviewed in a few evenings. Electronic publishing was chosen to save paper and for cost effectiveness. Each chapter ends with an exercise or quiz, with an answer key, to test your understanding of concepts. Chapter 8 explains how to use IBM SPSS Statistics software (SPSS) to perform statistical analyses covered in the typical undergraduate course and shows examples of reporting the results in articles or papers. Instructors of advanced statistics and research methods courses will find that QRST can be used as a text in the first week to review introductory statistics. QRST would also make a good companion text in a course that combines research methods and statistics. This book has two important help features. First, the detailed table of contents can be used to jump directly to any section of the book. Second, the book includes a glossary. Words defined in the glossary are printed in bold the first time they are used in the text. The second edition of QRST was edited extensively. The main changes are to Chapters 2 and 8. Chapter 2 on levels of measurement now reflects current practice in choosing the correct test more accurately, and Chapter 8 describes how to analyze data with the SPSS program while showing more examples of SPSS input windows and output. Another new feature is that examples of how to interpret output and report the results are included for each test.https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/psychology_books/1007/thumbnail.jp
The relationship between sex and territorial behavior in the San Cristóbal lava lizard (Microlophus bivittatus)
Get PDFThe purpose of this study is to learn more about the territorial behavior of the San Cristóbal lava lizard (Microlophus bivittatus). It was hypothesized that, due to competition for mates, competition would be higher amid individuals of the same sex than between individuals that were opposite sexes. This hypothesis was not supported by the data collected, as females were observed interacting more with other females than other males but males were observed interacting more with females than other males. This is likely a result of a sex ratio of two females to one male and the territory structure of the species
Pattern Avoidance
Get PDFA set partition avoids a pattern if no subdivision of that partition standardizes to the pattern. There exists a bijection between set partitions and restricted growth functions (RGFs) on which Wachs and White defined four statistics of interest to this work. We first characterize the restricted growth functions of several avoidance classes based on partitions of size four, enumerate these avoidance classes, and consider the distribution of the Wachs and White statistics across these avoidance classes. We also investigate the equidistribution of statistics between avoidance classes based on multiple patterns