An effort to improve nonlinear modeling practice
John C. M. Nash · 2011
Funded by the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, the Nonlinear Modeling Working Group is an assembly of approximately 20 researchers from a number of countries who are meeting for two 1-week working seminars, one in January 2011 and the other scheduled for late July 2011. At the first meeting, we chose a suite of test problems of an ecological nature requiring nonlinear models to be estimated. Each problem was then approached using open source modeling tools, in particular, R, AD Model Builder, and an open version of BUGS (either OpenBUGS or JAGS). This work will be continued at the second meeting and individually outside the formal events.