On detecting hump-shaped relationships in ecology: A bootstrap test for monotonicity

Environmetrics

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 611-616

  Murtaugh, Paul A ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrapping; Hump shaped; Isotonic regression; Monotone; Polynomial regression; Quadratic; Unimodal

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING;

EID: 0041912876     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.607     Document Type: Article

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