Bayesian Population Analysis using WinBUGS: A hierarchical perspective


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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 standard and non-standard Bayesian statistics.
- Comprehensive and richly commented examples illustrate a wide range of models that are most relevant to the research of a modern population ecologist
- All WinBUGS/OpenBUGS analyses are completely integrated in software R
- Includes complete documentation of all R and WinBUGS code required to conduct analyses and shows all the necessary steps from having the data in a text file out of Excel to interpreting and processing the output from WinBUGS in R
Bayesian Population Analysis using WinBUGS: A hierarchical perspective Review
I highly recommend this book if you are interested in learning Bayesian analysis and/or Winbugs. Similar to Kery's first book, Introduction to Winbugs for Ecologists, this book is a gentle introduction to common (yet advanced!) modeling techniques written for those who are new to modeling and statistics. The introductory chapters are especially useful for understanding how Bayesian analysis and model based statistics can be a more intuitive framework compared to traditional statistics that are taught in class. What makes this book so valuable is that the authors spend each chapter building up from the simplest form of a model to its most complex iteration. Because of this, it's actually been possible to figure out how to analyze my own data!Most of the consumer Reviews tell that the "Bayesian Population Analysis using WinBUGS: A hierarchical perspective" are high quality item. You can read each testimony from consumers to find out cons and pros from Bayesian Population Analysis using WinBUGS: A hierarchical perspective ...

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