COS 105 - Statistics

Thursday, August 7, 2008: 1:30 PM-5:00 PM
101 B, Midwest Airlines Center
1:30 PM
 A 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
2:10 PM
 A Bayesian interpretation of correspondence analysis
Steven C. Walker, McMaster University
2:30 PM
 Understanding aggregation in the membracid Publilia concava: Using models to disentangle processes
Daniel L. Klein, Williams College; Manuel A. Morales, Williams College
2:50 PM
3:10 PM
3:20 PM
 The effect of species functional traits and range size on the accuracy of distribution models for plant species in southern California
Alexandra D. Syphard, Conservation Biology Institute; Janet Franklin, Arizona State University
3:40 PM
 Statistical 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 PM
 A comparison of state-space approaches for population viability analysis with short time series
Brice Semmens, Northwest Fisheries Science Center; Elizabeth E. Holmes, NOAA Fisheries Service; Eric Ward, Northwest Fisheries Science Center
4:20 PM
 Inferring diet-switches from stable isotope analyses of multiple tissues - CANCELLED
Katherine J. Forbes, University of Wisconsin; Claudio Gratton, University of Wisconsin - Madison
4:40 PM
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