Chapter 8 : Correlation between the size of an island and the number of species
Raw data listing

Obs AREA SPECIES LArea LSPECIES
1 44218 100 10.6969 4.60517
2 29371 108 10.2878 4.68213
3 4244 45 8.3533 3.80666
4 3435 53 8.1418 3.97029
5 32 16 3.4657 2.77259
6 5 11 1.6094 2.39790
7 1 7 0.0000 1.94591


Chapter 8 : Correlation between the size of an island and the number of species
Scatter plot of the taw data

                     Plot of SPECIES*AREA.  Legend: A = 1 obs, B = 2 obs, etc.                     
                                                                                                   
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                  0           10000         20000         30000         40000         50000        
                                                                                                   
                                                   AREA                                            


Chapter 8 : Correlation between the size of an island and the number of species
Scatter plot of the log transformed data

                    Plot of LSPECIES*LArea.  Legend: A = 1 obs, B = 2 obs, etc.                    
                                                                                                   
LSPECIES |                                                                                         
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            0             2             4             6             8            10            12  
                                                                                                   
                                                    LArea                                          


Chapter 8 : Correlation between the size of an island and the number of species
Regression without transformed values

The REG Procedure
Model: MODEL1
Dependent Variable: LSPECIES

Number of Observations Read 7
Number of Observations Used 7

Analysis of Variance
Source DF Sum of
Squares
Mean
Square
F Value Pr > F
Model 1 6.99619 6.99619 425.30 <.0001
Error 5 0.08225 0.01645    
Corrected Total 6 7.07844      

Root MSE 0.12826 R-Square 0.9884
Dependent Mean 3.45438 Adj R-Sq 0.9861
Coeff Var 3.71289    

Parameter Estimates
Variable DF Parameter
Estimate
Standard
Error
t Value Pr > |t| 95% Confidence Limits
Intercept 1 1.93651 0.08813 21.97 <.0001 1.70996 2.16306
LArea 1 0.24968 0.01211 20.62 <.0001 0.21856 0.28080


Chapter 8 : Correlation between the size of an island and the number of species
Regression without transformed values
Listing of results from the regression output statement

Obs AREA SPECIES LArea LSPECIES yhat resid
1 44218 100 10.6969 4.60517 4.60731 -0.00214
2 29371 108 10.2878 4.68213 4.50516 0.17698
3 4244 45 8.3533 3.80666 4.02215 -0.21549
4 3435 53 8.1418 3.97029 3.96935 0.00095
5 32 16 3.4657 2.77259 2.80183 -0.02924
6 5 11 1.6094 2.39790 2.33835 0.05954
7 1 7 0.0000 1.94591 1.93651 0.00940