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 | | Randomization, Bootstrap and Monte Carlo Methods in Biology, Second Edition by Bryan F.J. Manly ISBN-10: 9780412721304 ISBN-10: 0-412-72130-9 ISBN-13: 9780412721304 ISBN-13: 978-0-412-72130-4 Hardcover 1997-03-01 Chapman & Hall Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description Randomization, Bootstrap and Monte Carlo Methods in Biology, Second Edition features new material on on bootstrap confidence intervals and significance testing, and incorporates new developments on the treatments of randomization methods for regression and analysis variation, including descriptions of applications of these methods in spreadsheet programs such as Lotus and other commercial packages. This second edition illustrates the value of modern computer intensive methods in the solution of a wide range of problems, with particular emphasis on biological applications. Examples given in the text include the controversial topic of whether there is periodicity between co-occurrences of species on islands. | ||
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added the bootstrap to permutation tests Manly is an excellent writer who has written several excellent texts and is an editor of a biostatistics journal. This is a revision of a very popular text on randomization or permutation methods. Because of the immense popularity of bootstrap methods (a similar resampling procedure), he elected to add some coverage of the bootstrap. All topics are covered in a clear and scholarly style and examples from biology are given. The interested reader might also look at Good (2000), Permutation Methods, 2nd Edition, published by Springer-Verlag and Edgington, Randomization Tests published by Marcel Dekker for other accounts on permutation tests. There are now several good books dedicated to bootstrap methods including Davison and Hinkley (1997), Cambridge University Press, Efron and Tibshirani (1993), CRC-Chapman and Hall and Chernick (1999), John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Chernick (2007) is an update of my bootstrap book and Manly Has added additional material in the third edition of the book that just came out. | ||
much more bootstrap in this edition Manly is an excellent author and has published a number of books with Chapman and Hall, This book was first published in the late 1980s as a book on randomization (permutation methods) and Monte Carlo. The bootstrap was not really covered. This book was a strong competitor to Edgington's book and the book Permutation Tests by Phil Good. In the second edition Manly appreciating the value of the bootstraap added it to the title and included som good coverage of the bootstrap. This third edition came out in 2007 around the same time as the third edition of my book. The third edition is significantly larger and much of the additional material is on bootstrapping, Noteworthy is his inclusion of Monte Carlo studies of bootstrap confidence intervals for variances for non-Gaussian intervals. This work seems to be in agreement with some of the recent but still unpublished work by Hettmansparger, Gel and Gastwirth and LaBudde and Chernick on this same topic. Manly's book is authoritative and filled with valuable references as well as many nice examples with very useful biological applications. I value it highly as a reference source and now own all three editions. He is kind enough to reference my 1999 book on the bootstrap. The second edition of my book came out just shortly after Manly's and I am sure he would have referenced it had he been aware if it. | ||
Data referenced in book are suspect I found this book rather interesting, with a nice mix of methods and applications. I intended to use some of the examples in a course that I am teaching. There are many examples given which use data sets to illustrate important concepts. However, I was unable to access several of these data sets. I contacted the author and mentioned that I was particularly interested in accessing two of the data sets that were referenced in the book --- his reply was that data sets for the book were available at a specific URL. Indeed there were several data sets at this location; but, not the data sets that I had mentioned in my inquiry. I did a lot of searching on my own for these data sets. One of these supposedly came from Sweden; but, after extensive searching through several Swedish databases I found nothing on this particular data set. I contacted the author again and requested at least a reference or link to these data sets --- no reply to my request has been received (after 11 days). I feel strongly that all data sets referenced in a book of this type should be available to the readers. If not, then they should not be used in examples. | ||
A must for EVERY biologist Statistical analysis based on resampling methods are clearly the way the bulk of statistics should be done, and the trend is towards this. Manly gives an excellent and clear treatment introducing these methods in various settings in population biology. This book is clearly a must for any biologist that has to deal with data, and it should be read by all such biologist. I shamelessly copy from this book when I present resampling methods to my graduate biostatistics class. | ||