Comparison of discriminant function and classification tree analyses for age classification of marmots

Oikos

Volumn 105, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 575-587

  Karels, Tim J ^a,b   Bryant, Andrew A ^c   Hik, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Marmot Recovery Foundation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

MARMOTA; MARMOTA CALIGATA; MARMOTA VANCOUVERENSIS; SCIURIDAE;

EID: 3042669642     PISSN: 00301299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0030-1299.2004.12732.x     Document Type: Article

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