As doctors and biologists have learned, to their dismay, infectious disease is a moving target: new diseases emerge every year, old diseases evolve into new forms, and ecological and socioeconomic upheavals change the transmission pathways by which disease spread. By taking an approach focused on th[...]
"Ecological Models and Data in R" is the first truly practical introduction to modern statistical methods for ecology. In step-by-step detail, this book teaches ecology graduate students and researchers everything they need to know in order to use maximum likelihood, information-theoretic, and Bayes[...]