Building useful models of species distributions requires attention to several important issues,
one being imperfect detection of species. Data sets of species detections are likely to suffer …

Negative binomial modelling is one of the most commonly used statistical tools for analysing
count data in ecology and biodiversity research. This is not surprising given the prevalence …

The current version of the Gene Transcription Regulation Database (GTRD; http://gtrd.
biouml. org) contains information about:(i) transcription factor binding sites (TFBSs) and …

" The level is appropriate for an upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level statistics major.
Sampling: Design and Analysis (SDA) will also benefit a non-statistics major with a desire to …

Ecologists develop species-habitat association (SHA) models to understand where species
occur, why they are there and where else they might be. This knowledge can be used to …

In Borchers et al.(2002), a unifying framework was given for the plethora of methods for
estimating the abundance of closed populations of animals. In Chap. 13 of that book, the …

Capture-Recapture Methods for the Social and Medical Sciences Page 1 Page 2 Chapman &
Hall/CRC Interdisciplinary Statistics Series Edited by Dankmar Böhning Peter GM van der …

It is well known that using individual covariate information (such as body weight or gender)
to model heterogeneity in capture-recapture (CR) experiments can greatly enhance …

Applications of estimating population sizes range from estimating human or ecological
population size within regions or countries to estimating the hidden number of civilian …

Statistical and mathematical models are defined by parameters that describe different
characteristics of those models. Ideally it would be possible to find parameter estimates for …