Hierarchical Modelling for the Environmental Sciences

Statistical Methods and Applications
Erscheinungsjahr 2006
ISBN: 978-0-19-856967-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 189 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 428 g

New Statistical tools are changing the wau in which scientists analyze and interpret data and models. Many of these are emerging as a result of the wide availability of inexpensive, high speed computational power. In particular, hierarchical Bayes and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for analysis provide constant framework for inference and prediction where information is heterogeneous and uncertain, processes are complex, and responses depend on scale. Nowhere are these methods more promising than in the environmental sciences. Models have developed rapidly, and there is now a requirment for a clear exposition of the methodology through to application for a range of environmental challenges.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clark, James S.

Gelfand, Alan E.

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Angewandte Informatik Computeranwendungen in Wissenschaft & Technologie
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Mathematik für Ingenieure
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Populärwissenschaftliche Werke
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Terrestrische Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltschutz, Umwelterhaltung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Datenanalyse, Datenverarbeitung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Professionelle Anwendung Computer-Aided Design (CAD)
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Naturschutzbiologie, Biodiversität
• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Computeranwendungen in der Technik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Meeres- und Süßwasserökologie
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Informatik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Computeranwendungen in der Mathematik
• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Business Application Mathematische & Statistische Software
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik Mathematische Statistik
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Preface

- Part I. Introduction to hierarchical modeling

- 1: Bradley P. Carlin, James S. Clark and Alan E. Gelfand: Elements of hierarchical Bayesian influence

- 2: Kent Holsinger: Bayesian hierarchical models in geographical genetics

- Part II. Hierarchical models in experimental settings

- 3: James S. Clark and Shannon LaDeau: Synthesizing ecological experiments and observational data with hierarchical Bayes

- 4: Janneke Hille Ris Lambers, Brian Aukema, Jeff Diez, Margaret Evans and Andrew Latimer: Effects of global change on inflorescence production: a Bayesian hierarchical analysis

- Part III. Spatial modeling

- 5: Alan E. Gelfand, Andrew Latimer, Shanshan Wu and John A. Silander, Jr.: Building statistical models to analyse species distributions

- 6: Kiona Ogle, Maria Uriarte, Jill Thompson, Jill Johnstone, Andy Jones, Yiching Lin, Eliot J. B. McIntire and Jess K. Zimmmerman: Implications of vulnerability to hurricane damage for long-term survival of tropical tree species: a Bayesian hierarchical analysis

- Part IV. Spatio-temporal modeling

- 7: Li Chen, Montserrat Fuentes and Jerry M. Davis: Spatial temporal statistical modeling and prediction of environmental processes

- 8: Christopher K. Wikle and Melvin B. Hooten: Hierarchical Bayesian spatio-temporal models for population spread

- 9: Eric Gilleland, Douglas Nychka and Uli Schneider: Spatial models for the distribution of extremes

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jim Clark is the Blomquist professor at Duke University, where his research focuses on how global change affects forests and grasslands. He received a B.S. from the North Carolina State University in Entomology (1979), a M.S. from the University of Massachusetts in Forestry and Wildlife (1984), and a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota in Ecology (1988). At Duke University, Clark teaches Community Ecology and Ecological Models & Data. He has served as the Director of Graduate Studies for the University Program in Ecology and as Director of the Center on Global Change.

Alan E. Gelfand is the J B Duke Professor of Statistics and Decision Sciences at Duke University. An early contributor to the development of computational machinery for fitting hierarchical Bayesian models, his current research focuses on the analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal data. His primary areas of application are to problems in environmental science, ecology, and climatology. He received a B.S. from the City College of New York and an M.S. and Ph.D. from Stanford University. After many years at the University of Connecticut, he joined the faculty at Duke University in August 2002.