Statistical Power in behavioural research

Martin Gammell gave a talk on the importance of statistical power at the ASAB conference at ARU in 2011. Some links are given below.

http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/622782/authorinstructions - Animal Behaviour Guide for Authors - includes detail on statistical reporting of results

Animal Behaviour:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347283712820 - Statistical power - Jeremy J. D. Greenwood

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347283712832 - Statistical power and accepting the null hypothesis - Charles E. Thompson and Andrew J. Neill

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347296902328 - The importance of statistical power analysis: an example fromAnimal Behaviour - LEN THOMAS and FRANCIS JUANES

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347210003957 - Power rangers: no improvement in the statistical power of analyses published in Animal Behaviour - Daniel R. Smith, Ian C.W. Hardy and Martin P. Gammell

Behavioural Ecology:

http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/3/438.full - Michael D. Jennions and Anders Pape Møller - A survey of the statistical power of research in behavioral ecology and animal behavior

http://beheco.oxfordjournals.org/content/14/3/446.full - Nick Colegrave and Graeme D. Ruxton - Confidence intervals are a more useful complement to nonsignificant tests than are power calculations

Biological Reviews:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2007.00027.x/abstract - Shinichi Nakagawa and
Innes C. Cuthill - Effect size, confidence interval and statistical significance: a practical guide for biologists

Farm Animal Welfare

http://www.fawc.org.uk/
http://www.fawc.org.uk/pdf/chris-wathes-article-101009.pdf - Article by Chris Wathes on why the government should take guardianship of farm animal welfare
http://www.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/farmanimal/welfare/govresponse/index.htm - responses to FAWC reports from Defra
http://ww2.defra.gov.uk/food-farm/animals/welfare/ - Codes of recommendations for welfare for species (not statutory requirements)
http://www.eurofawc.com/home/1 -  European Forum for Animal Welfare Councils. Harmonising welfare standards across Europe

Animal sentience

http://www.livesofanimals.org/
animalsentience.com

100 great novels - http://www.abebooks.co.uk/docs/Community/Featured/guardianList.shtml

Karen Overall links

Some articles by Karen Overall
including
How and why 3 drugs work benzodiazepines (alprazolam); tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs: amitriptyline, clomipramine); and selective serotonin re-uptakes inhibitors (SSRIs: fluoxetine). 

Sue Sternbergs dog ethogram