edited by Gordon A. Fox, Simoneta Negrete-Yankelevich, Vinicio J. Sosa
xv, 400 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Approaches to statistical inference -- Having the right stuff: the effects of data constraints on ecological data analysis -- Likelihood and model selection -- Misasing data: mechanisms, methods, and messages -- What you don't know can hurt you: censored and truncated data in ecological research -- Generalized linear models -- A statistical symphony: instrumental variables reveal causality and control measurement error -- Structural equation modeling: building and evaluating causal models -- Research synthesis methods in ecology -- Spatial variation and linear modeling of ecological data -- Statistical approaches to the problem of phylogenetically correlated data -- Mixture models for overdispersed data -- Linear and generalized linear mixed models --