Precision and reliability in paleocommunity comparisons based on cluster-confidence intervals: How to get more statistical bang for your sampling buck

Palaios

Volumn 14, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 506-515

  Bennington, J Bret ^a   Rutherford, Scott D ^b  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLUSTER ANALYSIS; PALEOECOLOGY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033392825     PISSN: 08831351     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3515400     Document Type: Article

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