Statistics by Simulation, 9780691258775
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Statistics by Simulation

A Synthetic Data Approach

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    456 pages

  • Release Date

    30 September 2025

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Summary

An accessible guide to understanding statistics using simulations, with examples from a range of scientific disciplines.

Real-world challenges such as small sample sizes, skewed distributions of data, biased sampling designs, and more predictors than data points are pushing the limits of classical statistical analysis. This textbook provides a new tool for the statistical toolkit: data simulations. It shows that using simulation and data-generating models is an excell…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780691258775
ISBN-10:0691258775
Author:Carsten F. Dormann, Aaron M. Ellison
Publisher:Princeton University Press
Imprint:Princeton University Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:456
Release Date:30 September 2025
Weight:852g
Dimensions:254mm x 178mm
About The Author

Carsten F. Dormann

Carsten F. Dormann is professor of biometry and environmental system analysis at the University of Freiburg, Germany. He is the author of the introductory textbook Environmental Data Analysis and coauthor of an open marine ecology textbook, Marine Ecology Notes.

Aaron M. Ellison served for twenty years as the senior research fellow in ecology at Harvard University. He is the author of A Field Guide to the Ants of New England and Vanishing Point and coauthor of A Primer of Ecological Statistics, Scaling in Ecology with a Model System, and other books.

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