Bird group math & stats help
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This page is designed to provide links to information on statistics and other mathematical topics that might be helpful to students in the bird group. Of course, others are welcome to use the site if it is helpful.
Please note that none of these materials are things that we have generated. Any credit should go to the fine people who have made their materials widely available.
Any comments/questions should be directed to Chris Elphick.
Frequentist methods
Stuff to come as we find it
Information theoretic methods
The main text book for this stuff is Burnham and Anderson's Model selection and multimodel inference: a practical information-theoretic approach (2002, 2nd Edition).
James Peterson has posted some useful notes on calcuating AIC, model averaging, etc. here
Bayesian methods
Stuff to come as we find it
Demographic modelling and Population viability analysis (PVA)
Probably the best book for understanding how to do PVAs is Morris and Doak's Quantitative Conservation Biology: Theory and Practice of Population Viability Analysis (2002). All of the MATLAB code from their book is available for download here.
Kent Holsinger has posted an excellent summary of the basics of PVA here, with explanations of Leslie Lefkovitch matrices, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, sensitivity analysis, etc.
There's a neat site here that helps you see how a Leslie matrix work.
