Strategies for fitting nonlinear ecological models in R, AD Model Builder, and BUGS

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 501-512

  Bolker, Benjamin M ^a   Gardner, Beth ^b,r   Maunder, Mark ^c   Berg, Casper W ^d   Brooks, Mollie ^e   Comita, Liza ^f,s   Crone, Elizabeth ^g   Cubaynes, Sarah ^h,t   Davies, Trevor ⁱ   de Valpine, Perry ^j   Ford, Jessica ^k   Gimenez, Olivier ^h   Kéry, Marc ^l   Kim, Eun Jung ^m   Lennert Cody, Cleridy ^c   Magnusson, Arni ⁿ   Martell, Steve ^o   Nash, John ^p   Nielsen, Anders ^d   Regetz, Jim ^f   Skaug, Hans ^q   Zipkin, Elise ^b   more..

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c INTER AMERICAN TROPICAL TUNA COMMISSION   (United States)

^d TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^g HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h CENTRE D ECOLOGIE FONCTIONNELLE ET EVOLUTIVE   (France)

ⁱ DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^l SWISS ORNITHOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^m UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

ⁿ MARINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iceland)

^o UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^p UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^q UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^r NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^s OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

more..

Author keywords

AD Model Builder; JAGS; Optimization; Parameter estimation; R; WinBUGS

Indexed keywords

EID: 84878905368     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12044     Document Type: Article

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