Exact confidence regions for species assignment based on DNA markers

Canadian Journal of Statistics

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 81-95

  Almudevar, Anthony ^a  

^a SAINT MARY S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Confidence region; Exact inference; Species assignment

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034344426     PISSN: 03195724     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3314765     Document Type: Article

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