Bayesian Population Analysis using WinBUGS: A Hierarchical Perspective

by Marc Kéry, Michael Schaub

Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780123870216
Publisher:	Elsevier Science & Technology Books
Publication date:	10/11/2011
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	554
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Dr. Marc works as a senior scientist at the Swiss Ornithological Institute, Seerose 1, 6204 Sempach, Switzerland. This is a non-profit NGO with about 160 employees dedicated primarily to bird research, monitoring, and conservation. Marc was trained as a plant population ecologist at the Swiss Universities of Basel and Zuerich. After a 2-year postdoc at the (then) USGS Patuxent Wildlife Center in Laurel, MD. During the last 20 years he has worked at the interface between population ecology, biodiversity monitoring, wildlife management, and statistics. He has published more than 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and five textbooks on applied statistical modeling. He has also been very active in teaching fellow biologists and wildlife managers the concepts and tools of modern statistical analysis in their fields in workshops all over the world, something which goes together with his books, which target the same audiences.Michael Schaub is the Head of the Ecology Department at the Swiss Ornithological Institute and a courtesy Professor at the University of Bern. His research interests include population dynamics, capture-recapture models, integrated population models, and migratory birds. He has coauthored approximately 130 peer-reviewed journal publications and the book Bayesian Population Analysis using WinBUGS.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. Very brief introduction to Bayesian statistical modeling 3. Introduction to the generalized linear model (GLM): The simplest model for count data 4. Introduction to random effects: The conventional Poisson GLMM for count data 5. State-space models 6. Estimation of population size 7. Estimation of survival probabilities using capture-recapture data 8. Estimation of survival probabilities using mark-recovery data 9. Multistate capture-recapture models 10. Estimation of survival and recruitment using the Jolly-Seber model 11. Integrated population models 12. Metapopulation modeling of abundance using hierarchical Poisson regression 13. Metapopulation modeling of species distributions using hierarchical logistic regression 14. Concluding remarks

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A comprehensive collection of richly commented Bayesian analyses of ecological models for population analysis using WinBUGS run from within program R, bridging the gap between introductory- and advance-level texts