"Building on the successful Analysing Ecological Data 2007 by Zuur Ieno and Smith the authors now provide an expanded introduction to using regression and its extensions in analysing ecological data As with the earlier book real data sets from postgraduate ecological studies or research projects are used throughout The first part of the book is a largely non-mathematical introduction to linear mixed effects modelling GLM and GAM zero inf ..."
"This chapter revises the basic concepts of linear regression, shows how to apply
linear regression in R, discusses model validation, and outlines the limitations of
linear regression when applied to ecological data. Later chapters present
methods to overcome some of these limitations; but as always before doing any
complicated statistical analyses, we begin with a detailed data exploration. The
key concepts to consider at this stag ..."