About this book
Bayesian statistics has exploded into biology and its sub-disciplines such as ecology over the past decade. The free software program WinBUGS and its open-source sister OpenBugs is currently the only flexible and general-purpose program available with which the average ecologist can conduct their own standard and non-standard Bayesian statistics.
This book goes right to the heart of the matter by providing ecologists with a comprehensive, yet concise, guide to applying WinBUGS to the types of models that they use most often: linear (LM), generalized linear (GLM), linear mixed (LMM) and generalized linear mixed models (GLMM).
Contents
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Principles of Bayesian Statistics
Chapter Three: WinBUGS (and a little bit on R)
Chapter Four: A First Session in WinBUGS: The ";Model of the Mean";
Chapter Five: Running WinBUGS from R via R2WinBUGS
Chapter Six: Key Components of Generalized Linear Models: Statistical Distributions and the Linear Predictor
Chapter Seven: T-Test: Equal and Unequal Variance
Chapter Eight: Normal Linear Regression
Chapter Nine: Normal One-Way ANOVA
Chapter Ten: Interaction
Chapter Eleven: General Linear Model (ANCOVA)
Chapter Twelve: Linear Mixed-Effects Model
Chapter Thirteen: Introduction to the Generalized Linear Model (GLM): Poisson T-Test
Chapter Fourteen: Over dispersion and Offsets in the GLM
Chapter Fifteen: Poisson ANCOVA
Chapter Sixteen: Poisson Mixed-Effects Model (Poisson GLMM)
Chapter Seventeen: Binomial T-Test
Chapter Eighteen: Binomial ANCOVA
Chapter Nineteen: Binomial Mixed-Effects Model (Binomial GLMM)
Chapter Twenty: Non-standard GLMMs 1: Site Occupancy Distribution Model
Chapter Twenty-One: Non-standard GLMMs 2: Binomial Mixture Model for the Modeling of True Abundance
Chapter Twenty-Two: Conclusion and Outlook
Acknowledgements
References
Solutions to Exercises
Customer Reviews
