THE ECOLOGICAL DETECTIVE CONFRONTING MODELS WITH DATA

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   You can order THE ECOLOGICAL DETECTIVE CONFRONTING MODELS WITH DATA (Ray Hilborn
   and Marc Mangel, 1997) from Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ by calling
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Table of Contents:

     Preface: Beyond the Null Hypothesis

     1. An Ecological Scenario and the Tools of the Ecological Detective

     2. Alternative Views of the Scientific Method and Of Modeling

     3. Probability and Probability Models: Know Your Data

     4. Incidental Catch in Fisheries: Seabirds in the New Zealand Squid Trawl
     Fishery

     5. The Confrontation: Sum of Squares

     6. The Evolutionary Ecology of Insect Oviposition Behavior

     7. The Confrontation: Likelihood and Maximum Likelihood

     8. Conservation Biology of Wildebeest in the Serengeti

     9. The Confrontation: Bayesian Goodness of Fit

     10. Management of Hake Fisheries in Western Africa

     11. The Confrontation: Understanding How the Best Fit is Found

     Appendix: The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses (by T.C. Chamberlain)

     References

Excerpts of reviews:

   "...However, there is no book which shows how to deal with real data as clearly
   as The Ecological Detective, and the models of population dynamics are close
   enough to genetics to be easily accessible...buy The Ecological Detective, read
   it and then confront your models with the data"--Nick Barton, Genetical Research
   70:181 (1997)

   "An absolutely essential tool for the ecological researcher. Upper-division
   undergraduates through faculty"--R.L. Smith, Choice November 1997

   "...The Ecological Detective is a valuable tool for quantitatively-minded
   ecologists trying to fit models to data, to synthesize multiple research efforts,
   or just to think critically about alternative hypotheses. I encourage you to pick
   up a copy, grab your programming manuals and dig in".-- John Van Sickle,
   Northwest Science 71:343 (1997)

   "Long swords have been sharpened and unsheathed in a war to change the way
   ecological data are analyzed and presented to decision makers...The Ecological
   Detective provides an unusually clear and careful description of analytical
   methods that were first applied to fisheries problems within the last decade" ---
   Cliff Kraft, Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 127:337 (1998)

   "For some readers, this book may change their philosophical and operational
   framework. For others, it will simply serve as a reminder of the importance of
   considering and testing alternative models. But no scientist should ignore
   Hilborn and Mangel's attempt to provide a general approach for exploring a
   complex world" -- Thomas Miller and Gretchen LeBuhn, Science 281:788

Errata

   Ben Bolker, University of Florida, compiled a list of errata that can be found at

   http://www.zoo.ufl.edu/bolker/emd/ED-errata.pdf

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