The effect of the full moon on trout fishing
成果类型：
Article
署名作者：
Mottley, CM; Embody, DR
署名单位：
Cornell University
刊物名称：
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION
ISSN/ISSBN：
0162-1459
DOI：
10.2307/2279427
发表日期：
1942
页码：
41-47
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摘要：
The idea that the full moon had an adverse effect on the fishing became general at Paul Lake in central British Columbia after the 1934 season. To test this claim records of catches of over 27,000 rainbow trout, extending through 5 seasons (1932-1936), were examined by sampling. Catches during the day of, the day before and the day after the full moon were compared with catches in 3 days selected at random from the remaining days of each month. Adjustment for the number of boats fishing was made by covariance analysis. The difference between the adjusted mean catches was not significant. Ten logical operations are needed to resolve this indeterminate situation. These are stated and illustrated by means of the fishing data.