3. Deterministic Functions for Ecological Modeling

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. 1. Introduction and Background 1
5. 2. Exploratory Data Analysis and Graphics 29
6. 3. Deterministic Functions for Ecological Modeling 72
7. 4. Probability and Stochastic Distributions for Ecological Modeling 103
8. 5. Stochastic Simulation and Power Analysis 147
9. 6. Likelihood and All That 169
10. 7. Optimization and All That 222
11. 8. Likelihood Examples 263
12. 9. Standard Statistics Revisited 298
13. 10. Modeling Variance 316
14. 11. Dynamic Models 337
15. 12. Afterword 362
16. Appendix. Algebra and Calculus Basics 363
17. Bibliography 369
18. Index of R Arguments, Functions, and Packages 383
19. General Index 389