Thursday, August 7, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
101 B, Midwest Airlines Center
COS 105 - Statistics
1:30 PMCOS 105-1A Markov chain Monte Carlo technique to analyze the growth, recruitment, and survivorship of unmarked individuals
Ben Bolker, University of Florida, Craig W. Osenberg, University of Florida, Jeffrey S. Shima, Victoria University of Wellington
1:50 PMCOS 105-2Use of factor analysis to investigate multivariate population time series
Masami Fujiwara, Texas A&M University
2:10 PMCOS 105-3A Bayesian interpretation of correspondence analysis
Steven C. Walker, University of Toronto
2:30 PMCOS 105-4Understanding aggregation in the membracid Publilia concava: Using models to disentangle processes
Daniel L. Klein, Williams College, Manuel A. Morales, Williams College
2:50 PMCOS 105-5On the importance of standardization by species in the exploratory analysis of community data
Peter R. Minchin, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
3:10 PM Break
3:20 PMCOS 105-6The effect of species functional traits and range size on the accuracy of distribution models for plant species in southern California
Alexandra D. Syphard, San Diego State University and Conservation Biology Institute, Janet Franklin, San Diego State University
3:40 PMCOS 105-7Statistical inference using mechanistic models in continuous time: Measles as a case study
Aaron A. King, University of Michigan, Daihai He, University of Michigan, Edward L. Ionides, University of Michigan
4:00 PMCOS 105-8A comparison of state-space approaches for population viability analysis with short time series
Brice Semmens, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Elizabeth E. Holmes, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, Eric Ward, University of Washington / NOAA
4:20 PMCOS 105-9Inferring diet-switches from stable isotope analyses of multiple tissues - CANCELLED
Katherine J. Forbes, University of Wisconsin, Claudio Gratton, University of Wisconsin
4:40 PMCOS 105-10Choosing between parsimonious and predictive ecological models
Shane A. Richards, University of Durham

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