Logic and science in wildlife biology

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 1007-1015

  Byron, Williams ^a  

^a U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cause; Hypothesis testing; Inference; Logic; Scientific method; Statistical inference; Wildlife science

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL SCIENCE; HYPOTHESIS TESTING;

EID: 2642677670     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3802097     Document Type: Article

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