Regression and model-building in conservation biology, biogeography and ecology: The distinction between - and reconciliation of - 'predictive' and 'explanatory' models

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 9, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 655-671

  Mac Nally, Ralph ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Criteria; Hierarchical partitioning; Inference; Model artefacts; Model selection; Multiple regression

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034126611     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008985925162     Document Type: Article

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