Otso Ovaskainen and Janne Soininen. 2011. Making more out of sparse data: hierarchical modeling of species communities. Ecology 92:289–295.

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Source code for parameter estimation.
Ecological Archives E092-025-S1.

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Otso Ovaskainen
Department of Biosciences
P.O. BOX 65 (Viikinkaari 1)
University of Helsinki
FI-00014 Finland
+358 9 191 57924
otso.ovaskainen@helsinki.fi

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data_abundance.csv

environment.csv

Diatom_data_MCMC.nb

Simulated_data_MCMC.nb

Diatom_data_MCMC.txt

Simulated_data_MCMC.txt

Description

The MCMC sampling was implemented with Mathematica 7.0.1. The code Diatom_data_MCMC.nb can be used to apply the estimation scheme to the real diatom data, given in files data_abundance.csv and environment.csv. The code Simulated_data_MCMC.nb can be used to generate simulated data and to fit the model to the simulated data. The files Diatom_data_MCMC.txt and Simulated_data_MCMC.txt include the two Mathematica notebooks in text format.