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Ecological Models and Data in R
Benjamin M. Bolker
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"Benjamin Bolker is a pioneer in helping ecology
students make the leap from a casual
understanding of modern statistical methods to a
hands-on application of these tools to their own
precious data sets. This book shows the lessons
learned from teaching this material to several
cohorts of graduate students. No other book I've
read gives such a good feel for the compromises
scientists have to make in searching for good
statistical models." Brian Inouye, Florida State University
Ecological Models and Data in R is the first
truly practical introduction to modern
statistical methods for ecology. In step-by-step
detail, the book teaches ecology graduate
students and researchers everything they need to
know in order to use maximum likelihood,
information-theoretic, and Bayesian techniques to
analyze their own data using the programming
language R. Drawing on extensive experience
teaching these techniques to graduate students in
ecology, Benjamin Bolker shows how to choose
among and construct statistical models for data,
estimate their parameters and confidence limits,
and interpret the results. The book also covers
statistical frameworks, the philosophy of
statistical modeling, and critical mathematical
functions and probability distributions. It
requires no programming backgroundonly basic calculus and statistics.
Read the introduction in PDF format here:
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Thank you for your time.
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Valerie Ambrose
Princeton University Press
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