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Betty Meggers: Her Later Years, William I. Woods Dec 2013

Betty Meggers: Her Later Years, William I. Woods

Andean Past

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Reminiscences Of A Stalwart Adversary, Robert L. Carneiro Dec 2013

Reminiscences Of A Stalwart Adversary, Robert L. Carneiro

Andean Past

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Bibliography Of Works By And About Betty Jane Meggers Dec 2013

Bibliography Of Works By And About Betty Jane Meggers

Andean Past

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Maine Peace Action Committee Newsletter, October 2013, Maine Peace Action Committee Oct 2013

Maine Peace Action Committee Newsletter, October 2013, Maine Peace Action Committee

General University of Maine Publications

MPAC compiled a newsletter consisting of essays, articles, short stories, poems, recipes, political cartoons, and artwork.


Bayesian Analysis Of Data On Nest Success For Marsh Birds, Sean Hardy May 2013

Bayesian Analysis Of Data On Nest Success For Marsh Birds, Sean Hardy

Honors College

Bayesian methods are an increasingly popular form of statistical analysis which uses informative prior distributions to help calculate posterior distributions of models that represent different hypotheses. Frequentist methods are contrasting methods that are used more commonly and more well known, but have come under recent criticism. I examined data gathered by Ellen Robertson, who used information theoretic methods for a Masters’ Thesis in Ecology and Environmental Science at the University of Maine to analyze the daily survival probabilities of marsh birds with a Bayesian perspective in order to get a sense of the Bayesian analysis. Results were as expected; when …