Bayesian computing with INLA: a review

H Rue, A Riebler, SH Sørbye, JB Illian… - Annual Review of …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
The key operation in Bayesian inference is to compute high-dimensional integrals. An old
approximate technique is the Laplace method or approximation, which dates back to Pierre …

Statistical methodology in studies of prenatal exposure to mixtures of endocrine-disrupting chemicals: a review of existing approaches and new alternatives

N Lazarevic, AG Barnett, PD Sly… - Environmental health …, 2019 - ehp.niehs.nih.gov
Background: Prenatal exposures to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) during critical
developmental windows have been implicated in the etiologies of a wide array of adverse …

Accounting for individual‐specific variation in habitat‐selection studies: Efficient estimation of mixed‐effects models using Bayesian or frequentist computation

S Muff, J Signer, J Fieberg - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Popular frameworks for studying habitat selection include resource‐selection functions
(RSFs) and step‐selection functions (SSFs), estimated using logistic and conditional logistic …

[BOK][B] Advanced spatial modeling with stochastic partial differential equations using R and INLA

E Krainski, V Gómez-Rubio, H Bakka, A Lenzi… - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Modeling spatial and spatio-temporal continuous processes is an important and challenging
problem in spatial statistics. Advanced Spatial Modeling with Stochastic Partial Differential …

Penalising model component complexity: A principled, practical approach to constructing priors

D Simpson, H Rue, A Riebler, TG Martins, SH Sørbye - 2017 - projecteuclid.org
Supplement to “Penalising Model Component Complexity: A Principled, Practical Approach
to Constructing Priors”. The supplementary material contains the proofs of all theorems …

[BOK][B] Bayesian regression modeling with INLA

X Wang, YR Yue, JJ Faraway - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
INLA stands for Integrated Nested Laplace Approximations, which is a new method for fitting
a broad class of Bayesian regression models. No samples of the posterior marginal …

Bias in the detection of negative density dependence in plant communities

M Detto, MD Visser, SJ Wright, SW Pacala - Ecology Letters, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Regression dilution is a statistical inference bias that causes underestimation of the strength
of dependency between two variables when the predictors are error‐prone proxies (EPPs) …

Species distribution modeling: a statistical review with focus in spatio-temporal issues

J Martínez-Minaya, M Cameletti, D Conesa… - … research and risk …, 2018 - Springer
The use of complex statistical models has recently increased substantially in the context of
species distribution behavior. This complexity has made the inferential and predictive …

Inbreeding reduces long-term growth of Alpine ibex populations

C Bozzuto, I Biebach, S Muff, AR Ives… - Nature ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Many studies document negative inbreeding effects on individuals, and conservation efforts
to preserve rare species routinely employ strategies to reduce inbreeding. Despite this, there …

Warming seas increase cold-stunning events for Kemp's ridley sea turtles in the northwest Atlantic

LP Griffin, CR Griffin, JT Finn, RL Prescott, M Faherty… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Since the 1970s, the magnitude of turtle cold-stun strandings have increased dramatically
within the northwestern Atlantic. Here, we examine oceanic, atmospheric, and biological …