Focusing on Bayesian approaches and computations using simulation-based methods for
inference, Time Series: Modeling, Computation, and Inference integrates mainstream …

Background Social media have transformed the communications landscape. People
increasingly obtain news and health information online and via social media. Social media …

Cartel Theory (and partisan theory more generally) expertly explains the functioning of the
US Congress. However, as a theory originally developed to study a single legislature where …

Continuing rapid growth in Shanghai, China, requires traffic safety to be considered at the
earliest possible stage of transport planning. Macro-level traffic safety studies have been …

The philopatric behaviour of albatrosses has intrigued biologists due to the high mobility of
these seabirds. It is unknown how albatrosses maintain a system of fragmented populations …

The reinvention of Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods and their implementation
within the Bayesian framework in the early 1990s has established the Bayesian approach as …

Stayability is a trait that has a large impact on the costs of rural properties because it is
directly related to the cow's ability to produce a certain number of calves over a given period …

1 The effects of neighbours on the growth of individual plants are fundamental to dynamics
in plant populations and can be described by means of mathematical functions, so-called …

An individual tree model with additive direct and competition effects is introduced to account
for competitive effects in forest genetics evaluation. The mixed linear model includes fixed …

We have estimated the number of sika deer, Cervus nippon, in Hokkaido, Japan, with the
aim of develo** a management program that will reduce the level of agricultural damage …