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Resource selection by animals statistical design and analysis for field studies

Bryan F. J. Manly 1944- Lyman L McDonald; Dana L Thomas

London Chapman & Hall New York 1993

Localização: IB - Instituto de Biociências    (QL756.5 R434 )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    Resource selection by animals statistical design and analysis for field studies
  • Autor: Bryan F. J. Manly 1944-
  • Lyman L McDonald; Dana L Thomas
  • Assuntos: Animals -- Food -- Statistical methods; Food preferences -- Statistical methods; Habitat selection -- Statistical methods; Experimental design; Animals; Food Preferences; Models, Statistical; Research Design; COMPORTAMENTO SOCIAL ANIMAL; Animals Behaviour
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-172) and index
  • Descrição: Introduction to resource selection studies -- Motivation and definitions -- Data for resource selection studies -- Sampling designs -- Sampling protocols -- Indices of selection -- Hypothesis tests and confidence intervals -- E xamples of the useof resource selection functions -- Examples -- Sample designs -- Assumptions -- Statistical modelling procedures -- Simple sample comparisons -- Testing coefficients of individual X variables -- Log-likelihood chi-squared tests -- Analysis ofresiduals -- Multiple tests and confidence intervals -- Studies with resources defined by several categories -- Sampling designs and protocols -- Ratios of random variables -- Chi-squared tests -- Design I with known proportions of availableresource units -- Tests on proportions of used units -- Inferences concerning selection ratios -- Comparison of selection ratios -- Design I with estimated proportions of available resource units -- Design II with sampling protocol A -- Censusof available resource units -- Sample of available resource units -- Design III with sampling protocol A (cont) Census of available resource units -- Sample of available resource units -- Estimating a resource selection probability function from a census of resource units using logistic regression -- Estimating the logistic functi on -- -- Estimatingresource selection probability functions from a census of resource units at several points in time using the proportional hazards model --
    Estimating the proportional hazards function -- Estimating a resource selection function from samples ofresource units using proportional hazards and log-linear models -- Expected sample frequencies for resource units -- Proportional hazards model -- Small proportion of resource units used -- On ly samples of unused resource units available --Estimating parameters from sample data -- Inferences with sample data -- Estimating a resource selection function from two samples of resource units using logistic regression and discriminant function methods -- Logistic regression -- Lineardiscriminant function analysis -- Quadratic discriminant function analysis -- General log-linear modelling (cont) Fitting models to data -- Analysis of the amount of use -- Analysis of counts of the amount of use -- Analysis of continuous measures of the amount of use -- Mixtures of zeros and positive measures of the amount of use - - Comparison ofselection for different types of resource unit -- Variances for estimates and their differences
  • Editor: London Chapman & Hall New York
  • Data de criação/publicação: 1993
  • Formato: xiii, 175 p. 24 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês

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