Rearrangement of ecological data matrices via Markov chain Monte Carlo simulation

Ecology

Volumn 86, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 3398-3410

  Miklós, István ^a   Somodi, Imelda ^a   Podani, János ^a  

^a EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aquatic vegetation; Block clustering; Boltzmann distribution; MCMC; Seriation

Indexed keywords

DATA MANAGEMENT; MARKOV CHAIN; MATRIX; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS;

EID: 30644477608     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: 00129658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/05-0027     Document Type: Article

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