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Model Assessment

Komuro, Reynolds, & Ford In Press.
Use of Pareto Frontiers to detect deficiencies in a biological simulation model. Proceedings of the IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, CEC 2007,Singapore, Sept. 25-28, 2007. Defining the model assessment problem as a problem in evolutionary computation optimization. Further illustration of how to interrogate the model's Pareto frontier to reveal the sources of structural deficiencies in a model of branch shoot growth.
Komuro, Reynolds, & Ford 2007a.
Using Multiobjective Evolutionary Algorithms to Assess Biological Simulation Models. In S. Obayashi et al., Eds., EMO 2007: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Evolutionary Multi-Criterion Optimization, Matsushima/Senda Japan, March 5-8, 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 4403, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, pp 560-574. Defining the model assessment problem as a problem in evolutionary computation optimization. Further illustration of how to interrogate the model's Pareto frontier to reveal the sources of structural deficiencies in a model of branch shoot growth.
Komuro, Ford, & Reynolds 2006.
The use of multi-criteria assessment in developing a process model. Ecological Modelling, 197: 320-330. Further illustration of the Pareto Optimal Model Assessment Cycle applied to the assessment of a model of branch shoot growth.
Reynolds & Golinelli 2005.
Multi-criteria inference for process models: structural and parametric inference for a stochastic model of feline hematopoiesis. 2004 Proceedings of the American Statistical Association, Section on Statistics & the Environment, Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. Introducing the potential conflicts from assessing (structural inference) a stochastic process model following the standard statistical inference sequence based on conditioning on adequacy of the model structure.
Reynolds & Ford 1999.
Multi-Criteria assessment of ecological process models. Ecology. 80(2): 538 - 553. Introduces the Pareto Optimal Model Assessment Cycle and the illustrates the use of the Pareto frontier for model assessment. Assessment of the canopy competition model WHORL (Sorrensen-Cothern et al. 1993. Ecological Monographs).

Survey & Monitoring Design

Reynolds, Woody, Gove, & Fair 2007.
Efficiently estimating salmon escapement uncertainty using systematically sampled data. Pages 121-129 in C. A. Woody, editor. Sockeye salmon ecology, evolution, and management. American Fisheries Society, Symposium No. 54, Bethesda, Maryland. Compares variance estimators for non-replicated systematic samples,and non-replicated vs replicated systematic sampling designs, for efficiently estimating salmon escapement (based on tower count observations). See associated R code.
Smith et al. 2007
Harnessing farms and forests in the low carbon economy: how to create, measure, and verify greenhouse gas. G. R. Smith, B. A. McCarl, C. Li, J. H. Reynolds, R. Hammerschlag, R. L. Sass, W. J. Parton, S. M. Ogle, K. Paustian, J. Holtkamp, W. Barbour. Duke University Press, ISBN-13: 978-0-8223-4168-0. 229 pp.

Ecoloy, Wildlife & Natural Resources

Renner et al. 2006.
Colony mapping: a new technique for monitoring crevice-nesting seabirds. The Condor 108: 424-435.
Reynolds & Ford 2005.
. Improving competition representation in theoretical models of self-thinning: a critical review. Journal of Ecology, 93: 362-372.
Thompson et al. 2001
A Review of Statistical Adjustment of Ozone for Meteorological Variables. Atmospheric Environment 35 (3): 617-630.

Statistical Applications

Kroeker, Sackett, & Reynolds 2007.
Statistical methods for describing developmental milestones with censored data: Effects of birth weight status and sex in neonatal pigtailed macaques. American Journal of Primatology, 69: 1313-1324.
Reynolds & Templin 2004a.
Detecting Specific Populations in Mixtures. Proceedings of the 20th Lowell Wakefield Fisheries Symposium: Genetics of Subpolar Fish and Invertebrates. Environmental Biology of Fishes, 69: 233-243.
Reynolds & Templin 2004b.
Comparing Mixture Estimates by Parametric Bootstrapping Likelihood Ratios. Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics, 9 (1): 57 -74.
Debevec et al. 2000
SPAM (Version 3.2): Statistics Program for Analyzing Mixtures. Journal of Heredity 91 (6): 509 - 510.

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