Bayesian Population Analysis using WinBUGS

Download or read book Bayesian Population Analysis using WinBUGS written by Marc Kéry and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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