environmental

Relating Resources to a Probabilistic Measure of Space Use: Forest Fragments and Steller’s Jays

Many analytical techniques that assess resource selection focus on individual relocation points as the sample unit and classify resources as either used or available. Commonly, the relative use of each resource is quantified as the number of …

Statistical Methods for Ecological Assessment Of Riverine Systems By Combining Information From Multiple Sources

The assessment of environmental risk and the evaluation of environmental policies increasingly require accurate and relevant information about the environment. For policy makers and stakeholders to evaluate possible policy changes, an understanding …

Spatial Distribution of Green Mold Foci in Thirty Commercial Mushroom Crops

Statistical analyses were performed on spatial distributions of mushroom green mold foci caused by Trichoderma spp. in 30 standard Pennsylvania doubles (743 $m^2$ production surface) selected at random from over 900 total crops mapped. Mapped …

Spatial–Temporal Modeling of Meteorological Fields with application to Climate Change

The traditional best linear unbiased prediction procedure ('Kriging') is used in this paper for inference, but within a Bayesian framework. See Brown, Le and Zidek (1994) for an alternative Bayesian formulation. Our approach is to exam how posterior …

An Approach to Statistical Spatial-Temporal Modeling of Meteorological Fields” (with discussion)

In this article we develop a random field model for the mean temperature over the region in the northern United States covering eastern Montana through the Dakotas and northern Nebraska up to the Canadian border. The readings are temperatures at the …

An Approach to Statistical Spatial-Temporal Modeling of Meteorological Fields” (rejoinder)

This is the rejoinder to the discussion of 'An Approach to Statistical Spatial-Temporal Modeling of Meteorological Fields' (https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.1994.10476754)

Comment on "Estimating or Choosing a Geostatistical Model" by Oliver Dubrule

This is a comment of 'Estimating or Choosing a Geostatistical Model' by Oliver Dubrule. His paper was presented at a conference to honour the remarkable contribution of Michel David in the inception, establishment and development of Geostatistics. …

Measuring the Uncertainty in Kriging

Spatial phenomena is commonly modelled as a realization from a stochastic process. Even when the reality is unique such models can usefully represent the uncertainty the modeler has about the phenomena. This paper is concerned with predicting for …

A Bayesian Analysis of Kriging

This article is concerned with predicting for Gaussian random fields in a way that appropriately deals with uncertainty in the covariance function. To this end, we analyze the best linear unbiased prediction procedure within a Bayesian framework. …

Statistical Review of the Henhouse experiments: The Effects of a Pulsed Magnetic Field on Chick Embryos

This paper analyzes data from a study conducted by the United States Office of Naval Research on the effects of pulsed magnetic fields on chick embryos. The experiment involved incubation of eggs under carefully controlled conditions in six different …