A comparison of statistical approaches for modelling fish species distributions

Freshwater Biology

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2002, Pages 1976-1995

  Olden, Julian D ^a,b   Jackson, Donald A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Immunology and Pathology   (United States)

Author keywords

Artificial neural networks; Classification trees; Discriminant analysis; Logistic regression; Species presence absence

Indexed keywords

FISH; MODELING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0036793562     PISSN: 00465070     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2427.2002.00945.x     Document Type: Article

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