Multiple comparison of entropies with application to dinosaur biodiversity

Biometrics

Volumn 55, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 1300-1305

  Fritsch, Kathleen S ^a   Hsu, Jason C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE AT MARTIN   (United States)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Entropy; Equivalence; Multiple comparisons

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; STATISTICAL TESTS;

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; EQUIVALENCE; MASS EXTINCTION; MULTIPLE COMPARISON; NULL HYPOTHESIS; P-VALUES; PIVOTAL QUANTITY;

ENTROPY;

BIODIVERSITY; BIOEQUIVALENCE; ENTROPY; HYPOTHESIS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; REVIEW; SPECIES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ASTEROIDEA; DINOSAURIA;

EID: 0032760349     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.01300.x     Document Type: Review

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