Discussion: Should ecologists become Bayesians?

Ecological Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1095-1103

  Dennis, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Ecological statistics; Frequentist statistics; Likelihood principle; Science philosophy; Scientific method; Statistical ecology; Subjective probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002471741     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2269594     Document Type: Article

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