Download or read book Hierarchical Modelling for the Environmental Sciences written by James Samuel Clark and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2006 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New statistical tools are changing the way in which scientists analyze and interpret data and models. Hierarchical Bayes and Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for analysis provide a consistent framework for inference and prediction where information is heterogeneous and uncertain, processes are complicated, and responses depend on scale. Nowhere are these methods more promising than in the environmental sciences.