Comparing discriminant analysis, neural networks and logistic regression for predicting species distributions: A case study with a Himalayan river bird

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 120, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 337-347

  Manel, Stéphanie ^a   Dias, Jean Marie ^a   Ormerod, Steve J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE PAU ET DES PAYS DE L'ADOUR   (France)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Logistic regression; Neural networks; Presence absence data; River birds

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

ASIA;

AVES; INVERTEBRATA; RHYACORNIS FULIGINOSUS; SETOPHAGA;

EID: 0033578449     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3800(99)00113-1     Document Type: Article

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