Classification and regression trees: A powerful yet simple technique for ecological data analysis

Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 11, 2000, Pages 3178-3192

  De'Ath, G ^a   Fabricius, K E ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Analysis of variance; CART; Classification tree; Coral reef; Great Barrier Reef; Habitat characteristic; Octocorallia; Regression tree; Soft coral; Surrogate

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033749212     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9658(2000)081[3178:CARTAP]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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