ABSTRACT
Ecological models often output terabytes of data that must be synthesized and summarized into salient facts to answer the modeling objective. This involves advanced statistical analysis of the simulated data in a spatial and non-spatial context to determine those significant differences between scenarios that will answer the questions raised by the modeling objective. First, this chapter covers the four steps of analysis: (1) decide on analysis software, (2) link output to analysis package, (3) perform analysis, (4) create final set of figures, tables, and maps. Then, various analysis issues are covered. Both response and explanatory variables are presented and various analysis summaries are presented.
