The book is not a set of pat statistical procedures but rather an approach the ecological detective makes liberal use of computer programming for the generation of hypotheses exploration of data and the comparison of different models the authors attitude is one of exploration both statistical and graphical the background required is minimal so that students with an undergraduate course in statistics and ecology can profitably add this work to their tool kit for solving ecological . The ecological detective confronting models with data mpb 28 monographs in population biology english edition ebook hilborn ray mangel marc amazonde kindle shop. The ecological detective confronting models with data confronting models with data mpb 28 monographs in population biology hilborn ray mangel marc isbn 9780691034973 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon. Likelihood allows us to attach support or a degree of belief in a model or several competing models the notion of the ecological detective neatly summarises this the work of an applied ecologist is akin to that of a detective we are frequently constrained in terms of the amount of evidence that is available and ecology generally proceeds by contrasting the compatibility of a number of competing hypotheses with the data rather than a tree of successive hypotheses. The ecological detective confronting models with data monographs in population biology hilborn ray mangel marc isbn 9780691034966 kostenloser versand fur alle bucher mit versand und verkauf duch amazon