On Testing for Independence of Animal Movements

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 48-63

  Swihart, Robert K ^a   Slade, Norman A ^b  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Autocorrelation; Bias; Home range; Migration; Randomization; Stationary distribution; Statistical independence

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0002589339     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1400640     Document Type: Article

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