Examples for Precision Estimates

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Wildlife By The Numbers

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

11 episodes

1 month ago

Co-hosted by Grant Harris, PhD, along with statisticians David "Randy" Stewart, PhD, and Matthew Butler, PhD, the Wildlife By The Numbers podcast emphasizes the importance of proper statistical approaches in wildlife ecology. Grant, Randy, and Matt also share anecdotes to create awareness about the challenges and rewards of ecological research. The special feature episodes of Wildlife By The Numbers, co-hosted by Cinthia, "The databrarian", highlight data lifecycle topics that support the work of wildlife ecology professionals. https://iris.fws.gov/APPS/ServCat/Reference/Profile/181148

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Examples for Precision Estimates

Wildlife By The Numbers

20 minutes 22 seconds

1 year ago

Examples for Precision Estimates

In this episode, Matt, Randy, and Grant dive into a discussion of more in-depth real world examples related to precision estimates.

Episode Quotes

"...when you're talking about sample size, you're often doing this game of optimization where I'm trying to optimize precision with costs because I may need a precision of ten percent, but if it's gonna cost me a million dollars to get it, then we need to rethink our goals and what what we're doing because that's probably not achievable. And so it's this...back and forth between costs and efficiencies. And how much precision do we need to be able to answer the questions at hand."

"...we had a wealth of information that fed into various analyses, whether it was published or not published, that allowed us to really find a concrete way of moving that program forward. So that when we start seeing declines, let's say of a certain species in one of the ponds, we can start now over time being able to understand why that population is declining. What are the mechanisms behind it?"

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