Canonical Modeling: A Link Between Environmental Models and Statistics
Eberhard O. Voit · DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) · 2016
The article describes three connections between statistics and modeling in environmental studies. As the first connection, typical exposure and disease models are derived mathematically from general principles of dynamical systems analysis. The second connection is developed between physiological and environmental processes on one hand and survival curves on the other. The third connection describes how dynamic processes affect distributions of random variables. Forming novel connections between different branches of environmetrics enhances our understanding of environmental phenomena and offers new avenues of analysis.