BAYESIAN WORKSHOP
For Ecologists and Wildlife Biologists
Texas State University, San Marcos, TX
JUNE 1-3, 2016
Instructors
Dr. William A. Link
USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center, USA
Dr. Richard J. Barker
University of Otago, New Zealand
Cost: Students - $299.00, Non-students - $499.00
Dorms available: $45/night, Linen charge $70 (optional)
Registration web page and link to tentative outline of topics
http://www.txstate.edu/continuinged/Events/Bayesian-Workshop.html
Questions: Dr. Butch Weckerly [email protected], Dr. Jeff Hatfield
[email protected]
William Link received his Ph.D from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst in
1986. After a
year on the faculty of Towson University, Link was hired as Mathematical
Statistician at the
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (PWRC) in Laurel, Maryland, where he has
collaborated on
analyses of count surveys, demographic analyses, mark-recapture, contaminant
studies and
many other aspects of wildlife statistics. In the mid-1990s, he dabbled with
Bayesian methods,
and became hooked.
After early experience as a fish and game officer in New Zealand, Richard
Barker spent a year
at PWRC. Link and Barkers early acquaintance led to a collaboration that is in
its third decade,
with important contributions as early advocates of Bayesian methods for
wildlife statistics. Their
recent work has focused on Bayesian multimodel inference, and lead to a book
Bayesian
inference, with ecological applications published in 2010. After Barkers
stint at PWRC, he
returned to New Zealand, earning his Ph.D at Massey University. Barker is now
Professor and
Chair of Statistics at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand.
Workshop participants will receive a free copy of Link and Barkers book.
