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632212
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Hilborn, Ray,1947-
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The ecological detective : : confronting models with data /\ Ray Hilborn and Marc Mangel.
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| Publication Statement
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Princeton, NJ :: Princeton University Press,, 1997.
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| Series Statement
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Monographs in population biology ;; 28
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xvii, 315 p. :: ill. ;; 22 cm.
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0691034966 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780691034966 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0691034974 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780691034973 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Preface: Beyond the Null Hypothesis -- 1. An Ecological Scenario and the Tools of the Ecological Detective -- 2. Alternative Views of the Scientific Method and of Modeling -- 3. Probability and Probability Models: Know Your Data -- 4. Incidental Catch in Fisheries: Seabirds in the New Zealand Squid Trawl Fishery -- 5. The Confrontation: Sum of Squares -- 6. The Evolutionary Ecology of Insect Oviposition Behavior -- 7. The Confrontation: Likelihood and Maximum Likelihood -- 8. Conservation Biology of Wildebeest in the Serengeti -- 9. The Confrontation: Bayesian Goodness of Fit -- 10. Management of Hake Fisheries in Namibia Motivation -- 11. The Confrontation: Understanding How the Best Fit Is Found
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Ecology-- Mathematical models.
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QH541.15.M3H54 1997
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Mangel, Marc.
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