Articles | Volume 23, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.1144/jm.23.1.61
© Author(s) 2004. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.On confidence intervals from micropalaeontological counts
Abstract. In micropalaeontology, statistics resulting from counts are rarely reported with error margins or confidence intervals. A short discussion of taxon proportions and of Fisher’s α diversity index is augmented with tables and graphs to assist the researcher in calculating confidence intervals. Any results, discussions or further calculations based on counts can then be put on a more secure statistical footing.