The ecological detective : confronting models with data /
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| Author / Creator: | Hilborn, Ray, 1947- |
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| Imprint: | Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1997. |
| Description: | xvii, 315 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Monographs in population biology. 28 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2705059 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface: Beyond the Null Hypothesis
- 1. An Ecological Scenario and the Tools of the Ecological Detective
- 2. Alternative Views of the Scientific Method and of Modeling
- 3. Probability and Probability Models: Know Your Data
- 4. Incidental Catch in Fisheries: Seabirds in the New Zealand Squid Trawl Fishery
- 5. The Confrontation: Sum of Squares
- 6. The Evolutionary Ecology of Insect Oviposition Behavior
- 7. The Confrontation: Likelihood and Maximum Likelihood
- 8. Conservation Biology of Wildebeest in the Serengeti
- 9. The Confrontation: Bayesian Goodness of Fit
- 10. Management of Hake Fisheries in Namibia Motivation
- 11. The Confrontation: Understanding How the Best Fit Is Found
- Appendix: "The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses"
- References
- Index
