Predicting the sex of parasitic jaegers by discriminant analysis

Waterbirds

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 14-23

  Phillips, Richard A ^a   Furness, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Discriminant Analysis; Incubation weight; Jackknife; Morphometric traits; Parasitic Jaeger; Posterior probability; Repeatability; Skua; Stercorarius parasiticus

Indexed keywords

AVES; GALLIFORMES; STERCORARIUS PARASITICUS;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; SEXING TECHNIQUE; SKUA;

EID: 0031395399     PISSN: 07386028     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1521759     Document Type: Article

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