Statistical modeling of seedling mortality

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 21-41

  Lavine, Michael ^a   Beckage, Brian ^b   Clark, James S ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Ecological statistics; Experimental design; Fisher information; Gibbs sampling

Indexed keywords

MORTALITY; POPULATION GROWTH; SEEDLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TREE;

EID: 0345569503     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/108571102317475044     Document Type: Article

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