Books and papers

We have published three books with Springer. Our first book, Analyzing Ecological Data was published in 2007 and discusses data exploration, regression, GLM, GAM, mixed effects modeling, regression & classification trees, multivariate analysis, time series and spatial analysis. The book contains a large number of case studies which can be used as blue prints for your own data analysis.

Almost immediately when this book was finished we wrote Mixed Effects Models and Extensions in Ecology with R, which came out in 2009. As the title suggests, it is about mixed effects modeling. It also contains extensive chapters on GLMs, GAMs, zero inflated models, GLMMs and GAMMs. Again, there are a large number of case studies.

Because our books are primarily driven by the courses we give, we also wrote a 200 page Beginner's Guide to R, which came out in 2009. It is a bestseller! In 2011 it was translated in Japanese and the Chinese translation is expected for 2012. A second edition is scheduled for 2013.

The mixed modelling book has a chapter on the analysis of zero inflated data and based on the feedback we decided to write a book on this subject: Analysis of Zero Inflated Data with R. We discuss zero inflated data, overdispersion and GLMM, nested zero inflated data, and spatially and temporally correlated zero inflated data. This book book is currently in review and is expected for November 2011.

We received a lot of positive feedback on the case studies presented in our mixed modelling book. We therefore wrote another 400 page book that consists only of case studies following the style of our mixed modelling book. Topics include GLMM for correlated data. This book is expected for February 2012.

Each book has its own website with content description, R code and data sets. You can access these websites by clicking on the relevant title in the BOOK AND PAPERS menu above.

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Book chapters

• Zuur, AF, Ieno, EN, Mazziotti, C, Montanari, G,  Attilio, R, and Ferrari CR. Common trends in trophic index time series from the coastal waters in Emilia-Romagna (Adriatic Sea-Italy). In: Chandler, R.E. and Scott,M. (eds). Statistical methods for trend detection and analysis in the Environmental Sciences. (In prep). John-Wiley.
• Ieno EN, Amendt J, Fremdt H, Saveliev AA, Zuur AF. (2011). Analysing forensic entomological data using mixed modelling and extensions.  In: Forensic Entomology - Novel Arthropods, Environments and Approaches. Editors J. Amendt, M. Lee Goff, C.P. Campobasso, M. Grassberger.