Hierarchical Modelling for the Environmental Sciences: Statistical Methods and Applications

Hierarchical Modelling for the Environmental Sciences: Statistical Methods and Applications
ISBN-10
019856967X
ISBN-13
9780198569671
Category
Science
Pages
205
Language
English
Published
2006
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Authors
Alan E. Gelfand, James Samuel Clark

Description

New statistical tools are changing the way in which scientists analyze and interpret data and models. Hierarchical Bayes and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for analysis provide a consistent framework for inference and prediction where information is heterogeneous and uncertain, processes are complicated, and responses depend on scale. Nowhere are these methods more promising than in the environmental sciences.

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