Introduction to WinBUGS for Ecologists: Bayesian approach to regression, ANOVA, mixed models and related analyses

• Introduction to the essential theories of key models used by ecologists
• Complete juxtaposition of classical analyses in R and Bayesian analysis of the same models in WinBUGS
• Provides every detail of R and WinBUGS code required to conduct all analyses
• Companion Web Appendix that contains all code contained in the book and additional material (including more code and solutions to exercises)

Dr. Marc Kéry is a senior scientist at the Swiss Ornithological Institute, a non-profit NGO with about 200 employees dedicated primarily to bird research, monitoring, and conservation. Marc was trained as a plant population ecologist at the universities of Basel and Zürich, Switzerland. After a 2-year postdoc at the (then) USGS Patuxent Wildlife Center in Laurel, USA, he moved into animal population ecology and during the last 25 years has worked at the interface between population ecology, biodiversity monitoring, wildlife management, and applied statistics. He has published more than 150 peer-reviewed journal articles and six textbooks on applied statistical modeling. He has taught more than 60 one-week workshops all over the world to biologists and wildlife managers about the concepts and practice of modern statistical analysis in their fields, something which goes together with his books, which target the same audiences.