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Ecological Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 1090-1094

  Edwards, Don ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Confidence intervals; Decision theory; Empirical bayes methods; Frequentist satatistics; Hierarchical statistical models; Hypothesis tests; Statistical ecology

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010867715     PISSN: 10510761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2269593     Document Type: Article

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