Propagating uncertainty in ecological models to understand causation

Neil A. Gilbert, Harold N. Eyster, & Elise F. Zipkin

Code/Data DOI:

Please contact the first author for questions about the code or data: Neil A. Gilbert ([email protected])

This project accompanies a Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment Letter to the Editor that comments on Addicott et al. (2022). We highlight an alternative approach to their analysis in which uncertainty in the first stage is propagated to the second.

Repository directory

analysis_scripts: The script in this folder runs all of the models and generates the figure

figures: Holds Fig. 1

results: Holds CSV files with summaries of parameter estimates and model selection information

stan_models: Holds the model code as Stan files, as well as model output as RDS files