All ebooks in the collection "Environmental and Ecological Statistics" - Springer

Multivariate Methods of Representing Relations in R for Prioritization Purposes

Wayne L. Myers , Ganapati P. Patil

This monograph is multivariate, multi-perspective and multipurpose.  We intend to be innovatively integrative through statistical synthesis.  Innovation requires capacity to operate in ways that are not ordinary, which means that conventional computations and generic...

Ranking and Prioritization for Multi-indicator Systems

Rainer Brüggemann , Ganapati P. Patil

This book provides axioms of partial order and some basic material, for example consequences of “criss-crossing” of data profiles, the role of aggregations of the indicators and the powerful method of formal concept analysis. The interested reader will learn how to...

Composite Sampling

Sharad D. Gore , Ganapati P. Patil , Charles Taillie

Sampling consists of selection, acquisition, and quantification of a part of the population. While selection and acquisition apply to physical sampling units of the population, quantification pertains only to the variable of interest, which is a particular...

Modeling Demographic Processes in Marked Populations

Michael J. Conroy , Evan G. Cooch , David L. Thomson