The statistical properties of disease incidence are reviewed and used to characterize spatial
patterns of diseased entities (eg plants), satisfy assumptions of statistical analyses, and …

Abstract Model building and data analysis in the biological sciences somewhat presupposes
that the person has some advanced education in the quantitative sciences, and statistics in …

The success of the first edition of Generalized Linear Models led to the updated Second
Edition, which continues to provide a definitive unified, treatment of methods for the analysis …

The understanding of the dynamics of animal populations and of related ecological and
evolutionary issues frequently depends on a direct analysis of life history parameters. For …

Imagine a statistics book for bioassays written by a statistician. Next, imagine a statistics
book for bioassays written for a layman. Bioassays with Arthropods, Third Edition offers the …

Since our first edition of this book, many developments in statistical mod elling based on
generalized linear models have been published, and our primary aim is to bring the book up …

Selection of a proper model as a basis for statistical inference from capture—recapture data
is critical. This is especially so when using open models in the analysis of multiple …

In this article a method for obtaining tests for overdispersion with respect to a natural
exponential family is derived. The tests are designed to be powerful against arbitrary …

This second edition of Models for Repeated Measurements has been comprehensively
revised and updated, taking into account the huge amount of research that has been carried …

Adopting a broad view of statistical inference, the text concentrates on what various
techniques do, with mathematical proof kept to a minimum. The approach is rigorous but …