Comparing the performances of Diggle's tests of spatial randomness for small samples with and without edge-effect correction: Application to ecological data

Biometrics

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 156-164

  Gignoux, Jacques ^a   Duby, Camille ^b   Barot, Sébastien ^a  

^a ECOLE NORMALE SUPÉRIEURE   (France)

^b AGROPARISTECH   (France)

Author keywords

Bias; Distance methods; Monte Carlo; Nearest neighbor; Point process; Power; Spatial pattern

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGY; MONTE CARLO METHODS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BIAS; DISTANCE METHOD; EDGE-EFFECTS; EFFECT CORRECTIONS; MONTE CARLO; NEAREST-NEIGHBOUR; POINT PROCESS; POWER; SMALL SAMPLES; SPATIAL PATTERNS;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EDGE EFFECT; METHODOLOGY;

ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT REDUCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; ECOLOGY; NONHUMAN; RELIABILITY; SAMPLE; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 0032910131     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.00156.x     Document Type: Article

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