Inferring ecological relationships from the edges of scatter diagrams: Comparison of regression techniques

Ecology

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 448-460

  Scharf, Frederick S ^a,b   Juanes, Francis ^a   Sutherland, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^b TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal abundance size relationships; Prey predator size relationships; Quantile regression; Regression techniques; Scatter diagrams

Indexed keywords

METHODOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; PISCES;

EID: 0031818959     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(1998)079[0448:IERFTE]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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