Knowing when to draw the line: designing more informative ecological experiments

KL Cottingham, JT Lennon… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
Linear regression and analysis of variance (ANOVA) are two of the most widely used
statistical techniques in ecology. Regression quantitatively describes the relationship …

glmmTMB balances speed and flexibility among packages for zero-inflated generalized linear mixed modeling

ME Brooks, K Kristensen, KJ Van Benthem… - The R …, 2017 - research-collection.ethz.ch
Count data can be analyzed using generalized linear mixed models when observations are
correlated in ways that require random effects. However, count data are often zero-inflated …

Mixed models: getting the best use of parasitological data

S Paterson, J Lello - TRENDS in Parasitology, 2003 - cell.com
Statistical analysis of parasitological data provides a powerful method for understanding the
biological processes underlying parasite infection. However, robust and reliable analysis of …

runjags: An R package providing interface utilities, model templates, parallel computing methods and additional distributions for MCMC models in JAGS

MJ Denwood - Journal of statistical software, 2016 - jstatsoft.org
The runjags package provides a set of interface functions to facilitate running Markov chain
Monte Carlo models in JAGS from within R. Automated calculation of appropriate …

Modeling zero-inflated count data with glmmTMB

ME Brooks, K Kristensen, KJ van Benthem… - BioRxiv, 2017 - biorxiv.org
Ecological phenomena are often measured in the form of count data. These data can be
analyzed using generalized linear mixed models (GLMMs) when observations are …

Ecology drives the worldwide distribution of human diseases

V Guernier, ME Hochberg, JF Guégan - PLoS biology, 2004 - journals.plos.org
Identifying the factors underlying the origin and maintenance of the latitudinal diversity
gradient is a central problem in ecology, but no consensus has emerged on which …

Parasite‐mediated selection against Inbred Soay sheep in a free‐living island populaton

DW Coltman, JG Pilkington, JA Smith… - Evolution, 1999 - Wiley Online Library
Parasites are thought to provide a selective force capable of promoting genetic variation in
natural populations. One rarely considered pathway for this action is via parasite‐mediated …

[PDF][PDF] Heterogeneities in macroparasite infections: patterns and processes

K Wilson, ON Bjørnstad, AP Dobson… - The ecology of wildlife …, 2002 - ento.psu.edu
2.1 Background Exhaustive empirical surveys have shown that, almost without exception,
macroparasites (parasitic helminths and arthropods) are aggregated across their host …

Statistical analysis of sex ratios: an introduction

K Wilson, ICW Hardy - Sex ratios: concepts and research methods, 2002 - cambridge.org
In this chapter we discuss how to make best use of sex ratio data. We identify three basic
questions that such data can be used to answer: does the sex ratio differ from some …

Major histocompatibility complex variation associated with juvenile survival and parasite resistance in a large unmanaged ungulate population (Ovis aries L.)

S Paterson, K Wilson… - Proceedings of the …, 1998 - National Acad Sciences
Antagonistic coevolution between hosts and parasites has been proposed as a mechanism
maintaining genetic diversity in both host and parasite populations. In particular, the high …