Ecological Statistics
Contemporary theory and application
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 January 2015
- ISBN 9780199672554
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages406 pages
- Size 246x190x20 mm
- Weight 745 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
An intermediate level text covering linear, generalized linear, linear mixed-effects, and generalized mixed models; implemented in R and set within a contemporary framework.
MoreLong description:
The application and interpretation of statistics are central to ecological study and practice. Ecologists are now asking more sophisticated questions than in the past. These new questions, together with the continued growth of computing power and the availability of new software, have created a new generation of statistical techniques. These have resulted in major recent developments in both our understanding and practice of ecological statistics.
This novel book synthesizes a number of these changes, addressing key approaches and issues that tend to be overlooked in other books such as missing/censored data, correlation structure of data, heterogeneous data, and complex causal relationships. These issues characterize a large proportion of ecological data, but most ecologists' training in traditional statistics simply does not provide them with adequate preparation to handle the associated challenges. Uniquely, Ecological Statistics highlights the underlying links among many statistical approaches that attempt to tackle these issues. In particular, it gives readers an introduction to approaches to inference, likelihoods, generalized linear (mixed) models, spatially or phylogenetically-structured data, and data synthesis, with a strong emphasis on conceptual understanding and subsequent application to data analysis.
Written by a team of practicing ecologists, mathematical explanations have been kept to the minimum necessary. This user-friendly textbook will be suitable for graduate students, researchers, and practitioners in the fields of ecology, evolution, environmental studies, and computational biology who are interested in updating their statistical tool kits. A companion web site provides example data sets and commented code in the R language.
We would be glad to adopt this as a textbook and recommend it as a resource for graduate students who need to strengthen their understanding of modern statistical approaches that can inform ecological problems.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Approaches to Statistical Inference
Having the Right Stuff: the Effects of Data Constraints on Ecological Data Analysis
Likelihood and Model Selection
Missing Data: Mechanisms, Methods and Messages
What You Don't Know Can Hurt You: Censored and Truncated Data in Ecological Research
Generalized Linear Models
A Statistical Symphony: Instrumental Variables Reveal Causality and Control Measurement Error
Structural Equation Modeling: Building and Evaluating Causal Models
Research Synthesis Methods in Ecology
Spatial Variation and Linear Modeling of Ecological Data
Statistical Approaches to the Problem of Phylogenetically Correlated Data
Mixture Models for Overdispersed Data
Linear and Generalized Linear Mixed Models
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