Modeling a poisson forest in variable elevations: A nonparametric Bayesian approach

Biometrics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 738-745

  Heikkinen, Juha ^a   Arjas, Elja ^b  

^a FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Ecological response curves; Nonparametric Bayesian inference; Reversible jump MCMC; Spatial interpolation; Spatial point process

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; INFERENCE ENGINES; MARKOV PROCESSES;

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; BAYESIAN FORMULATION; ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE; ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE CURVE; NON-PARAMETRIC BAYESIAN; NON-PARAMETRIC BAYESIAN INFERENCES; RESPONSE CURVES; REVERSIBLE-JUMP MCMC; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; SPATIAL POINT PROCESS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; MEASUREMENT; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

EID: 0032887428     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.00738.x     Document Type: Article

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