A Bayesian approach to identifying and compensating for model misspecification in population models

Ecology

Volumn 95, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 329-341

  Thorson, James T ^a   Ono, Kotaro ^b   Munch, Stephan B ^c  

^a NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian models; Gaussian process; Model misspecification; Population dynamics model; Semiparametric models; State space models

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; META-ANALYSIS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84897979365     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0187.1     Document Type: Article

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