I recently ran a short workshop on the statistical challenges in the sustainable management of natural resources (SMNR) for wellbeing. The participants were a mix of scientists working in SMNR and statisticians working in areas that I thought might be relevant. We had lots of interesting and lively discussions. In particular around the types of […]
How to quantify everyone’s (lack of) knowledge to help make better decisions
I’m running a short workshop at the Conservation Optimism conference on 21 April 2017. The workshop aims to demonstrate how background knowledge from different experts, both stakeholders and scientists, can be quantified and used to complement other data sources from more formal scientific studies. In the last 20 years, as Bayesian methods have flourished, statisticians […]
Understanding Hsiang and Sekar’s analysis
My previous post critiqued Hsiang and Sekar’s paper that claims that the legal sale of ivory in 2008 led to a sharp increase (or discontinuity) in elephant poaching between 2007 and 2008. Specifically for this post, the critique stated that their analyses were flawed. Following this Hsiang and Sekar published a response. Their replication files are also […]
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