In our statistical practice, we ecologists work comfortably within the hypothetico-deductive epistemology of Popper and the frequentist statistical methodology of Fisher. Consequently, our null ...
Bayesian estimation methods form a dynamic branch of statistical inference, utilising Bayes’ theorem to update probabilities in light of new evidence. This framework combines prior knowledge with ...
This paper is a generalization of earlier studies by Ferreira (1975) and Holbert and Broemeling (1977), who used improper prior distributions in order to make informal Bayesian inferences for the ...
Mike Lee receives relevant research funding from the Australian Research Council, the Australia-Pacific Science Foundation, and Flinders University. Benedict King receives funding from the Australian ...
Background Bayesian networks (BN) are directed acyclic graphs derived from empirical data that describe the dependency and probability structure. It may facilitate understanding of complex ...