Use of the β-function to estimate the skewness of species responses

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 799-805

  Karadžić, Branko ^a   Marinković, Saša ^a   Katarinovski, Dragan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BELGRADE   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Algorithm; Gradient analysis; Simulated data; Species response; Vegetation model

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; GRADIENT ANALYSIS; SKEWNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 17944394366     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2003.tb02212.x     Document Type: Article

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