Why environmental scientists are becoming Bayesians

Ecology Letters

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 2-14

  Clark, James S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data modelling; Gibbs sampler; Hierarchical Bayes; Inference; MCMC; Models; Prediction

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; PREDICTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 12944287801     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2004.00702.x     Document Type: Review

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