Bayesian Population Analysis using WinBUGS: A Hierarchical Perspective

Bayesian Population Analysis using WinBUGS: A Hierarchical Perspective

<p>Bayesian statistics has exploded into biology and its sub-disciplines, such as ecology, over the past decade. The free software program WinBUGS, and its open-source sister OpenBugs, is currently the only flexible and general-purpose program available with which the average ecologist can conduct standard and non-standard Bayesian statistics.</p><ul><li>Comprehensive and richly commented examples illustrate a wide range of models that are most relevant to the research of a modern population ecologist</li><li>All WinBUGS/OpenBUGS analyses are completely integrated in software R</li><li>Includes complete documentation of <i>all</i> R and WinBUGS code required to conduct analyses and shows <i>all</i> the necessary steps from having the data in a text file out of Excel to interpreting and processing the output from WinBUGS in R</li></ul>