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HAMMER, Ø. & HARPER, D. 2005. Paleontological Data Analysis.

xi + 351 pp. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing. Price £39.99 (paperback). ISBN 1 4051 1544 0.

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Published in October 2005 (rather than 2006 as indicated on the copyright page) this book represents the culmination of a process that started in the late 1980s with the production of a software package (PALSTAT) of numerical statistical techniques appropriate for palaeontologically-oriented problems. This has been elaborated subsequently in the form of regularly updated freeware known as PAST (PAlaeontological STatistics – that first appeared in 1998) that includes a wide range of statistical packages relevant to palaeontology: univariate/multivariate statistics, ecological data analysis, morphometrics, phylogenetic analysis, time series analysis, etc. The program manual for PAST is rather terse and assumes some level of prior knowledge, or familiarity, with the packages. . . . [Full Text of this Article]