You don't say how many elements you have, but whether it is one or more then I would have thought Chi-square and Fisher's test are entirely appropriate. Why are you worried about using them?
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>Subject: [ZOOARCH] Statistics help
> From: Melanie Fillios <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:39:26 -0600
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>Dear All, I'm hoping someone may be able to point me in the right direction
>with some statistical analysis of an assemablage. In short, I am comparing
>two stratigraphic units and would like to test whether differences in
>element frequencies between the two units are statistically significant.
>Could anyone tell me what type of test I should be using? I've looked a
>using a Chi-square or Fisher's test, but neither seem appropriate. As math
>is not my strong point, I may be missing something.
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>Thanks for the help!
>
>Melanie
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>Dr. Melanie Fillios
>University of Sydney
>NSW, Australia 2006
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