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<mark>Journal publication date</mark> | 1/01/1997 |
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<mark>Journal</mark> | Parasitology Today |
Issue number | 1 |
Volume | 13 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Pages (from-to) | 33-38 |
Publication Status | Published |
<mark>Original language</mark> | English |
Typically, the distribution of macroparasites over their host population is highly aggregated and empirically best described by the negative binomial distribution. For parasitologists, this poses a statistical problem, which is often tackled by log-transforming the parasite data prior to analysis by parametric tests. Here, Ken Wilson and Bryan Grenfell show that this method is particularly prone to type 1 errors, and highlight a much more powerful and flexible alternative: generalized linear modelling.