Non-parametric tests and confidence regions for intrinsic diversity profiles of ecological populations

Environmetrics

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 733-741

  Di Battista, Tonio ^a   Gattone, Stefane A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHIETI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Balanced confidence regions; Bootstrap root estimate; Diversity profile; Replicated sampling

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; NUMERICAL METHOD; POPULATION ECOLOGY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

AVES; GALLIFORMES;

EID: 0344718985     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.617     Document Type: Article

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