Extremes in ecology: Avoiding the misleading effects of sampling variation in summary analyses

Ecology

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1633-1640

  Link, William A ^a   Sauer, John R ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF STANDARDS AND TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes estimation; Breeding Bird Survey; Constrained Bayes estimation; Extreme values; Sampling variation; Trend

Indexed keywords

BREEDING BIRD SURVEY; EXTREME VALUES; SAMPLING VARIATION;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0030428005     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2265557     Document Type: Article

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