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Ray Hilborn - The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data (MPB-28) - 9780691034973 - V9780691034973
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The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data (MPB-28)

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Description for The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data (MPB-28) Paperback. How do we make the field and laboratory coherent? How do we use statistics to help experimentation? How do we integrate modeling and statistics? This book answers these questions. It makes liberal use of computer programming for the generation of hypotheses, exploration of data, and the comparison of different models. Series: Monographs in Population Biology. Num Pages: 336 pages, 67 line illus. 27 tables. BIC Classification: PBW; PDN; PSAF; PSTS; PSVS; UGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 137 x 22. Weight in Grams: 408.
The modern ecologist usually works in both the field and laboratory, uses statistics and computers, and often works with ecological concepts that are model-based, if not model-driven. How do we make the field and laboratory coherent? How do we link models and data? How do we use statistics to help experimentation? How do we integrate modeling and statistics? How do we confront multiple hypotheses with data and assign degrees of belief to different hypotheses? How do we deal with time series (in which data are linked from one measurement to the next) or put multiple sources of data into one inferential framework? These are the kinds of questions asked and answered by The Ecological Detective. Ray Hilborn and Marc Mangel investigate ecological data much as a detective would investigate a crime scene by trying different hypotheses until a coherent picture emerges. The book is not a set of pat statistical procedures but rather an approach. The Ecological Detective makes liberal use of computer programming for the generation of hypotheses, exploration of data, and the comparison of different models. The authors' attitude is one of exploration, both statistical and graphical. The background required is minimal, so that students with an undergraduate course in statistics and ecology can profitably add this work to their tool-kit for solving ecological problems.

Product Details

Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
330
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Series
Monographs in Population Biology
Condition
New
Weight
407g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691034973
SKU
V9780691034973
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Ref
99-1

About Ray Hilborn
Ray Hilborn is Professor in the School of Fisheries, University of Washington and the coauthor, with Carl Walters, of Quantitative Fisheries Stock Assessment. Marc Mangel is Professor of Environmental Studies and a Fellow at College Eight at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and a Visiting Professor at the University of Glasgow. He is the author of Decision and Control in Uncertain Resource Systems and coauthor, with Colin Clark, of Dynamic Modeling in Behavioral Ecology.

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