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We wrote this book to introduce graduate students and research workers in var­ ious scientific disciplines to the use of information-theoretic approaches in the analysis of empirical data. In its fully developed form, the information-theoretic approach allows inference based on more than one model (including estimates of unconditional precision); in its initial form, it is useful in selecting a "best" model and ranking the remaining models. We believe that often the critical issue in data analysis is the selection of a good approximating model that best represents the inference supported by the data (an estimated "best approximating model"). In­ formation theory includes the well-known Kullback-Leibler "distance" between two models (actually, probability distributions), and this represents a fundamental quantity in science. In 1973, Hirotugu Akaike derived an estimator of the (relative) Kullback-Leibler distance based on Fisher's maximized log-likelihood. His mea­ sure, now called Akaike 's information criterion (AIC), provided a new paradigm for model selection in the analysis of empirical data. His approach, with a funda­ mental link to information theory, is relatively simple and easy to use in practice, but little taught in statistics classes and far less understood in the applied sciences than should be the case. We do not accept the notion that there is a simple, "true model" in the biological sciences.

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Rare animals -- Monitoring. --- Rare plants -- Monitoring. --- Landscape ecology --- Land use --- Ecological landscape design --- Earth & Environmental Sciences --- Ecology --- Ecologically sound landscape design --- Environmentally sound landscape design --- Applied ecology --- Landscape design --- Land --- Land utilization --- Use of land --- Utilization of land --- Economics --- Land cover --- Landscape assessment --- NIMBY syndrome --- Environmental aspects --- Planning --- Rare animals --- Rare plants --- Monitoring --- Rare animals - Monitoring --- Rare plants - Monitoring --- Monitoring.

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Offers a comprehensive introduction to distance sampling, a statistical method used by many biologists and conservationists to estimate animal abundance. The text discusses point transect sampling and line transect sampling and also describes several other related techniques. There are updates on study design and field methods, laser range finders, theodolites and the GPS and advice is given on a wide range of survey methods. Analysis methods have also been generalized, through the use of various types of multiplier and exercises for students in wildlife and conservation management are included.

Échantillonnage --- Sampling --- Technique analytique --- Analytical methods --- Surveillance --- monitoring --- Population animale --- Animal population --- Densité de population --- population density --- Méthode statistique --- Statistical methods --- Animal populations --- Sampling (Statistics) --- Estimates. --- Sampling (Statistics).