Re: statistics question

2007-02-01 Thread Jeffrey Stratford
Susan, I've been doing regressions of all flavors with BBS data. However, I've stopped using SAS and I've switched to R. I don't think you can get either to calculate delta AIC but that's just AICmodel - AICmin correct? Maybe you can get deltaAIC with stepAIC in R and you might be able to do an

Job: Eastern Bluebird technician

2006-03-08 Thread Jeffrey Stratford
Auburn University's Center for Forest Sustainability seeks a technician immediately until 27 July 2006 to assist with an ongoing project examining the effects of landscape on Eastern Bluebird physiology and reproduction. Primary responsibilities include nest box checking and getting blood and mo

Re: { SPAM 1 }::nonlinear stats program

2006-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Stratford
Brad, Have you checked out R? It is an open source program that does just about everything SAS does if not more. You can dowload it and get documentation from http://www.r-project.org/ I've switched to R from SAS. It hasn't been easy but so far it has been worth it. Best, Jeff ***

Help: great model but poor prediction

2005-10-27 Thread Jeffrey Stratford
Greetings, I'm attempting to model the spatial distrubution of avian species richness (SR) across a gradient of distrubance. SR was divided into several groups (all, residents, short-, and long-distance migrants) and analyzed separately. I used point counts (0.8 km) apart to get the species rich

Re: sampling design

2005-10-25 Thread Jeffrey Stratford
Euan, Most sampling designs, regardless of geographic location, are taxon specific so it would be useful to know what group your friend is working with. Always good to run some analyses with preliminary data. For animals this would involve SR repeated sampling to estimate both detection probabil