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In this chapter I use meta-analysis to examine some of the fundamental problems in the population dynamics of freshwater, anadromous and marine fish. By meta-analysis I mean the use of statistical methods to analyse data from many populations, to arrive at generalizations valid for some portion, or all of the population studies (Hedges and Olkin, 1985; Hunter and Schmidt, 1990). This may take the form of a common hypothesis test or it may combine estimates from many populations to arrive at an estimate that is common for the taxa.
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Myers, R.A. (1997). Recruitment variation in fish populations assessed using meta-analysis. In: Chambers, R.C., Trippel, E.A. (eds) Early Life History and Recruitment in Fish Populations. Chapman & Hall Fish and Fisheries Series, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1439-1_16
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