Avoiding pitfalls when using information-theoretic methods

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 912-918

  Anderson, David R ^a   Burnham, Kenneth P ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Akaike's Information Criterion; Analysis guidelines; Information theoretic methods; Kullback Leibler information; Model selection uncertainty; Modeling; P values

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; METHODOLOGY; THEORY;

EID: 0036638567     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3803155     Document Type: Article

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