[R-sig-eco] papers about using MCMC in ecological study

[Stratford, Jeffrey]

Marc has two books out:

1. Introduction to WinBUGS for Ecologists: Bayesian approach to regression, ANOVA, mixed models and related analyses
2. Bayesian Population Analysis using WinBUGS: A hierarchical perspective

I have the first and I probably reference it once a week.  I'm not a statistician (just a "wannabe") but I find this book the most useful. If you use it as a tutorial, you create data, then analyze it using R and WinBUGS. So you're able to compare standard statistical analyses with Bayesian results. 

I've also read McCarthy's book.  This is a very nice introduction to the Bayesian approach and I would read this first.

Cheers,

Jeff
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Sent: Saturday, November 26, 2011 3:35 PM
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Subject: Re: [R-sig-eco] papers about using MCMC in ecological study

Jakub Szymkowiak <qbaszym at ...> writes:

> 
> Duncan, Rob, Peter - thanks a lot for suggestions about literature!
> 
> Peter - by MCMC methods I mean Markov Chain Monte Carlo ;)
> I have great book by Ben Bolker - Ecological Models and Data in R, but I'm 
> searching for more examples of using MCMC in the study of habitat selection.
> Anyway - thanks for Your advice!


  (1) Michael McCarthy's book on Bayesian methods (the best/gentlest introduction
to WinBUGS/Bayesian methods for ecologists)
  (2) Royle and Dorazio's book
  (3) maybe Marc Kéry's new book (haven't read it)

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