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How do we make the field and laboratory coherent? How do we use statistics to help experimentation? How do we integrate modeling and statistics? This book answers these questions. It makes liberal use of computer programming for the generation of hypotheses, exploration of data, and the comparison of different models.

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Preface: Beyond the Null Hypothesis1An Ecological Scenario and the Tools of the Ecological Detective32Alternative Views of the Scientific Method and of Modeling123Probability and Probability Models: Know Your Data394Incidental Catch in Fisheries: Seabirds in the New Zealand Squid Trawl Fishery945The Confrontation: Sum of Squares1066The Evolutionary Ecology of Insect Oviposition Behavior1187The Confrontation: Likelihood and Maximum Likelihood1318Conservation Biology of Wildebeest in the Serengeti1809The Confrontation: Bayesian Goodness of Fit20310Management of Hake Fisheries in Namibia Motivation23511The Confrontation: Understanding How the Best Fit Is Found263Appendix"The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses"281References295Index309

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      Publisher Princeton University Press
      Published 4 July 1997
      ISBN-13 9780691034973
      978-0691034973
      ISBN-10 0691034974
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      Mathematics Applied mathematics

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      Book Synopsis
      How do we make the field and laboratory coherent? How do we use statistics to help experimentation? How do we integrate modeling and statistics? This book answers these questions. It makes liberal use of computer programming for the generation of hypotheses, exploration of data, and the comparison of different models.

      Table of Contents
      Preface: Beyond the Null Hypothesis1An Ecological Scenario and the Tools of the Ecological Detective32Alternative Views of the Scientific Method and of Modeling123Probability and Probability Models: Know Your Data394Incidental Catch in Fisheries: Seabirds in the New Zealand Squid Trawl Fishery945The Confrontation: Sum of Squares1066The Evolutionary Ecology of Insect Oviposition Behavior1187The Confrontation: Likelihood and Maximum Likelihood1318Conservation Biology of Wildebeest in the Serengeti1809The Confrontation: Bayesian Goodness of Fit20310Management of Hake Fisheries in Namibia Motivation23511The Confrontation: Understanding How the Best Fit Is Found263Appendix"The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses"281References295Index309

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