The Ecological Detective: Confronting Models with Data (Mpb-28)

by Ray Hilborn and Marc Mangel

Book Overview

The modern ecologist usually works in both the field and laboratory, uses statistics and computers, and often works with ecological concepts that are model-based, if not model-driven. How do we make the field and laboratory coherent? How do we link models and data? How do we use statistics to help experimentation? How do we integrate modeling and statistics? How do we confront multiple hypotheses with data and assign degrees of belief to different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691034974
• ISBN13: 9780691034973
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"