THE RANDOM TOPOLOGY MODEL OF CHANNEL NETWORKS: BIAS IN STATISTICAL TESTS.

Direct tests of the random topology model have traditionally employed the 0.05 level of significance. As exercises in model confirmation, these tests should have used a larger significance level and because they did not, the test have been biased in favor of the model. This bias has contributed to t...

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Publicado en:Professional Geographer Vol. 38; no. 1; pp. 77 - 82
Autores principales: Abrahams, Athol D., Mark, David M.
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Taylor & Francis Ltd Feb86
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        Geographic network analysis
        Geography -- Methodology
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        Geography -- Statistical methods
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          Geography -- Statistical methods
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        channel networks
        fluvial geomorphology
        significance tests
      ab: Direct tests of the random topology model have traditionally employed the 0.05 level of significance. As exercises in model confirmation, these tests should have used a larger significance level and because they did not, the test have been biased in favor of the model. This bias has contributed to the limitations of the model being overlooked. When all published tests of topologically distinct channel networks and ambilateral classes are repeated using a significance level of 0,30 rather than 0.05, the proportion of tests in which the model is rejected increases from 15 to 46 percent.
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