TY - BOOK ID - 50192802 TI - Bayesian inference : with ecological applications AU - Link, William A. AU - Barker, Richard J. PY - 2010 SN - 1282257714 9786612257711 0080889808 0123748542 PB - Amsterdam : Academic Press, DB - UniCat KW - Bayesian statistical decision theory. KW - Ecology KW - Mathematical models. KW - Bayes' solution KW - Bayesian analysis KW - Statistical decision UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:50192802 AB - Statistical theory is primarily a product of the twentieth century. The prevailing school of thought builds on the frequentist philosophy developed by R.A. Fisher, the eminent biological theorist and experimentalist. Fisher's philosophy has been so thoroughly embraced that it has been labeled the ""classical"" approach, even though the alternative Bayesian philosophy antedates it by more than a century. Frequentist thinking has prevailed over Bayesian primarily because of the practical difficulty of fitting all but the simplest Bayesian models. Wildlife statistics has been almost entirely cond ER -