This week I finalized the question I want to focus on for my final project. What I wasn’t to focus on finding is which of the organisms in the Hawaiian Coral Reefs, out of the 69 that were studied, have been affected negatively the most. The factors I want to focus most on are the levels of disease, physical damage, and deaths among organisms.
After discussing this in the previous class, it was decided that in order to do this research I would need to find the z-scores for each of the organisms in the three categories and look at their standard deviations.
So far, I have done this for the data on disease, and I plan to look at both physical damage and deaths by the end of next week.