Modelling skewed data with many zeros: A simple approach combining ordinary and logistic regression

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 45-54

  Fletcher, David ^a,b   MacKenzie, Darryl ^b   Villouta, Eduardo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Proteus Wildlife Research Consultants   (New Zealand)

^c DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Abundance; Bootstrap; Conditional model; Ecklonia; Evechinus

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING;

ECKLONIA; EVECHINUS; ZEROS;

EID: 17844365855     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-005-6817-1     Document Type: Article

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