Category Archives: statistical ecology

“Microplastics in the Ocean: Emergency or Exaggeration?” (Morss Colloquium, WHOI)

Posted on 25 October 2019 by

Update, 2019-10-28 00:34 ET I have compiled notes from the talks above, and from the audience Q&A and documented these in a Google Jam here.

Posted in American Association for the Advancement of Science, bag bans, Claire Galkowski, coastal communities, coasts, diffusion processes, microbiomes, microplastics, NOAA, oceanic eddies, oceanography, oceans, perceptions, phytoplankton, plastics, pollution, quantitative biology, quantitative ecology, science, science education, statistical ecology, WHOI, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | Leave a comment

cdetools package for R: Dalmasso, et al [updated]

Posted on 7 September 2019 by

Just hit the “arXiv streets”: N. Dalmasso, T. Pospisil, A. B. Lee, R. Izbicki, P. E. Freeman, A. I. Malz, “Conditional Density Estimation Tools in Python and R with applications to photometric redshifts and likelihood-free cosmological inference”, arXiv.org > astro-ph … Continue reading →

Posted in ABC, accept-reject methods, astronomy, astrophysics, astrostatistics, Bayes, Bayesian computational methods, likelihood-free, statistical ecology | Leave a comment