Estimating the mean and variance from highly skewed marine data

Fishery Bulletin

Volumn 94, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 498-505

  Pennington, Michael ^a  

^a NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOLOGICAL SURVEYS; DATA PROCESSING; SKEWNESS;

EID: 0029660119     PISSN: 00900656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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