Introduction to WinBUGS for Ecologists

Bayesian approach to regression, ANOVA, mixed models and related analyses

By

Marc Kery, Swiss Ornithological Institute, Sempach, Switzerland

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Paperback, 320 Pages

Published: June 2010

Imprint: Academic Press

ISBN: 978-0-12-378605-0

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"I dont believe this book was written with the goal of being treated as the primary text of an intro Bayesian statistics course. That said, it could prove to be a useful supplemental text for an introductory Bayesian course or even a linear models course. Although the book was geared towards ecologists, I believe it would be an excellent library addition for any applied modeler interested in applying Bayesian methodologies in their work."--The American Statistician

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

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