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From the reviews:"For many people dealing with statistics is like jumping into ice-cold water. This metaphor is depicted by the cover of this book … . full of excellent example code and for most graphs and analyses the code is printed and explained in detail. … Each example finishes with … valuable information for a person new to a technique. In summary, I highly recommend the book to anyone who is familiar with basic statistics … who wants to expand his/her statistical knowledge to analyse ecological data." (Bernd Gruber, Basic and Applied Ecology, Vol. 10, 2009)"This book is written in a very approachable conversational style. The additional focus on the heuristics of the process rather than just a rote recital of theory and equations is commendable. This type of approach helps the reader get behind the ‘why’ of what’s being done rather than blindly follow a simple list of rules.… In short, this text is good for researchers with at least a little familiarity with the basic concepts of modeling and who want some solid stop-by-stop guidance with examples on how common ecological modeling tasks are accomplished using R." (Aaron Christ, Journal of Statistical Software, November 2009, Vol. 32)"The authors succeed in explaining complex extensions of regression in largely nonmathematical terms and clearly present appropriate R code for each analysis. A major strength of the text is that instead of relying on idealized datasets … the authors use data from consulting projects or dissertation research to expose issues associated with ‘real’ data. … The book is well written and accessible … . the volume should be a useful reference for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and experienced professionals working in the biological sciences." (Paul E. Bourdeau, The Quarterly Review of Biology, Vol. 84, December, 2009)“This is a companion volume to Analyzing Ecology Data by the same authors. …It extends the previous work by looking at more complex general and generalized linear models involving mixed effects or heterogeneity in variances. It is aimed at statistically sophisticated readers who have a good understanding of multiple regression models… .The pedagogical style is informal… . The authors are pragmatists―they use combinations of informal graphical approaches, formal hypothesis testing, and information-theoretical model selection methods when analyzing data. …Advanced graduate students in ecology or ecologists with several years of experience with ‘messy’ data would find this book useful. …Statisticians would find this book interesting for the nice explorations of many of the issues with messy data. This book would be (very) suitable for a graduate course on statistical consulting―indeed, students would learn a great deal about the use of sophisticated statistical models in ecology! …I very much liked this book (and also the previous volume). I enjoyed the nontechnical presentations of the complex ideas and their emphasis that a good analysis uses ‘simple statistical methods wherever possible, but doesn’t use them simplistically.’” (Biometrics, Summer 2009, 65, 992–993)“This book is a great introduction to a wide variety of regression models. … This text examines how to fit many alternative models using the statistical package R. … The text is a valuable reference … . A large number of real datasets are used as examples. Discussion on which model to use and the large number of recent references make the book useful for self study … .” (David J. Olive, Technometrics, Vol. 52 (4), November, 2010)

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Building on the successful Analysing Ecological Data (2007) by Zuur, Ieno and Smith, the authors now provide an expanded introduction to using regression and its extensions in analysing ecological data. As with the earlier book, real data sets from postgraduate ecological studies or research projects are used throughout. The first part of the book is a largely non-mathematical introduction to linear mixed effects modelling, GLM and GAM, zero inflated models, GEE, GLMM and GAMM. The second part provides ten case studies that range from koalas to deep sea research. These chapters provide an invaluable insight into analysing complex ecological datasets, including comparisons of different approaches to the same problem. By matching ecological questions and data structure to a case study, these chapters provide an excellent starting point to analysing your own data. Data and R code from all chapters are available from www.highstat.com. Alain F. Zuur is senior statistician and director of Highland Statistics Ltd., a statistical consultancy company based in the UK. He has taught statistics to more than 5000 ecologists. He is honorary research fellow in the School of Biological Sciences, Oceanlab, at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Elena N. Ieno is senior marine biologist and co-director at Highland Statistics Ltd. She has been involved in guiding PhD students on the design and analysis of ecological data. She is honorary research fellow in the School of Biological Sciences, Oceanlab, at the University of Aberdeen, UK. Neil J. Walker works as biostatistician for the Central Science Laboratory (an executive agency of DEFRA) and is based at the Woodchester Park research unit in Gloucestershire, South-West England. His work involves him in a number of environmental and wildlife biology projects. Anatoly A. Saveliev is a professor at the Geography and Ecology Faculty at Kazan State University, Russian Federation, where he teaches GIS and statistics. He also provides consultancy in statistics, GIS & Remote Sensing, spatial modelling and software development in these areas. Graham M. Smith is a director of AEVRM Ltd, an environmental consultancy in the UK and the course director for the MSc in ecological impact assessment at Bath Spa University in the UK.

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Series: Statistics for Biology and Health

Paperback: 574 pages

Publisher: Springer; Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2009 edition (April 6, 2011)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1441927646

ISBN-13: 978-1441927644

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6.1 x 1.4 x 9.2 inches

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I've read through the first 6 chapters during the past few days, and have quite enjoyed it -- it reads smoothly, almost like a novel; quite unexpected for a text written by multiple authors. There's even a bit of humor. I've worked a bit with mixed models in the SAS world, but needed to learn how to deal with them in R, and this book has turned-out to be rather better than expected in this regard (I'm really liking how mixed models are done in R as opposed to SAS). At first I thought the blend of topics covered a bit odd, wondering what the heck a "Generalized Additive Model" was and what it was doing in a book on mixed models, but it turns out that GAMs are really nifty and not too difficult to grasp and in fact appear relevant to problems I'm currently working on. The authors have a preference for working with the distribution of the data as given rather than attempting to transform it to an approximation of normality, and I'm coming to appreciate this as well. For an applied text, it has unexpected depths. Great book.

I really enjoyed this group's first book, Analysing Ecological Data, but this book is even better. The second book follows the style and format of the first book in that the authors explain the concepts in non-technical terms, but don't gloss over the important ideas. Moreover, they use real data sets that are quite messy and they show how these data sets can be analyzed through the numerous case studies in the text. All of the case studies are from published ecological papers or PhD theses. What makes this book even better than their first is that R code is included in the text and they carefully show how R can be used to help with the analysis and to construct the elaborate and beautiful graphics displayed in the text. If you're looking to analyze your own ecological data, you must have a copy of this book. It is an invaluable resource both for statistical methodology and for understanding how to use R with statistical models. These guys have done a spectacular job with this book and I look forward to future work from them.

This book is very good in both introducing statistical concepts and describing the R commands to implement those concepts. It is required, however, a relatively deep understanding of Linear Regression. I read this book from A to Z, however, each chapter is as independent as possible, and therefore it is possible to read the individual chapters. I did not try the code on the web page of the book yet, but I did type some of the examples and the code from the book works OK. In addition in the web site there is a set of instructions to install a package with all the code from the examples and updates on the R libraries and packages explained in the book.Each methodology explained in the book covers step by step both the statistical (and mathematical) details as well as the construction of the R code (including importing the dataset and formating of columns for later analysis).One of the most important "extra points" in this book is the use of a consistent methodology to approach the problem of modeling ecological data from a statistical point of view.My only complain is that there are lots (LOTS) of typos, nothing too serious (since I was able to catch them) but still, I'm a little disappointed, because a good reviewer should got those.

I am a plant ecologist. Even when I try to design simple experiments, it seems everything has autocorrelation (how did they do ecology in the past!?). So, I'm always using mixed models.This book is great on two fronts. First, it is an excellent "how to" guide for using mixed models in R. It gives you examples, output, and a roadmap to the code you need to write to do the analysis. Second, it explains the theory behind mixed models in a way that is easy to understand for a non-statistician. It walks you through what output means and the theory behind what R is doing, and the limitations of what R won't do.Every ecologist should buy this book.

Many applications in ecology clearly are not amenable to use of the general linear model due to violations of its assumptions. In fact, in most projects I work on, things like correlation among the errors, nonconstant error variance, etc., are the rule, rather than the exception. If you are looking for an applied text dealing with these types of situations with lots of examples, and demonstrations on analysis in R, then you should get this book. It does not delve into theory; there are plenty of other textbooks where you can fill in those details if you are interested. Rather, this book would be ideally suited for quantitative ecologists, biometricians, and statistical consultants who work in life sciences. Another nice thing is that the book does not assume you are an "R expert". Well done.

Many ecologists recommended this book and as I statistician I decided to give it a go. I have read a few chapters and they are quite interesting. I think the inclusion of new authors to this team improved the quality of their statistics. The concepts are good, and I follow a very similar philosophy than the authors in my consulting. However, I was missing some additional discussion in relevant topics including extensions on hierarchical models and other complex mixed models with several strata. The elements are there but not in the best form. I do congratulate the authors in adding some of those chapter with detailed examples and with code and data! This provides a great way to get the experience for the reader, and I am glad the editors accepted this approach. In summary, this book is a good start, but it should be complemented with other books, for example Littell et al. (2006) that is in SAS but provides great descriptions of concepts to a similar level.

This is a great book that I refer to on a regular basis. There is a sufficient amount of math, so that users have some background on procedures. There is a great collection of examples with R code so that procedures can be easily implemented. Most of the procedures use standard frequentist methods, though there is one example of a Bayesian analyses. Highly recommended for applied scientists who are comfortable with basic concepts of statistics and R.

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