APPENDIX. “The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses”

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: Beyond The Null Hypothesis xi
4. 1. An Ecological Scenario and the Tools of the Ecological Detective 3
5. 2. Alternative Views of the Scientific Method and of Modeling 12
6. 3. Probability and Probability Models: Know Your Data 39
7. 4. Incidental Catch in Fisheries: Seabirds in the New Zealand Squid Trawl Fishery 94
8. 5. The Confrontation: Sum of Squares 106
9. 6. The Evolutionary Ecology of Insect Oviposition Behavior 118
10. 7. The Confrontation: Likelihood and Maximum Likelihood 131
11. 8. Conservation Biology of Wildebeest in the Serengeti 180
12. 9. The Confrontation: Bayesian Goodness of Fit 203
13. 10. Management of Hake Fisheries in Namibia 235
14. 11. The Confrontation: Understanding How the Best Fit Is Found 263
15. APPENDIX. “The Method of Multiple Working Hypotheses” 281
16. References 295
17. Index 309