New Concepts & Synthesis paper accepted in Ecology on optimal dynamic monitoring

Williams, P. J., M. B. Hooten, J. N. Womble, G. G. Esslinger, and M. R. Bower. In Press. Monitoring dynamic spatio-temporal ecological processes optimally. Ecology (pdf) Abstract: Population dynamics varies in space and time. Survey designs that ignore these dynamics may be inefficient and fail to capture essential spatio-temporal variability of a process. Alternatively, dynamic survey… Continue reading New Concepts & Synthesis paper accepted in Ecology on optimal dynamic monitoring

A pre-print of “A guide to Bayesian model checking for ecologists” available online

The manuscript is currently in review at Ecological Monographs and a pre-print is available via PeerJ Preprints. Citation: Conn P, Johnson D, Williams P, Melin S, Hooten M. (2017) A guide to Bayesian model checking for ecologists. PeerJ Preprints 5:e3390v1https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.3390v1 Abstract: Checking that models adequately represent data is an essential component of applied statistical inference.… Continue reading A pre-print of “A guide to Bayesian model checking for ecologists” available online