Statistical interpretation of species composition

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 96, Issue 456, 2001, Pages 1205-1214

  Billheimer, Dean ^a   Guttorp, Peter ^b   Fagan, William F ^c  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Compositional data; MCMC; Multinomial regression; Random effects; Species assemblage

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542679362     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/016214501753381850     Document Type: Article

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