Statistical issues in ecological risk assessment

Human and Ecological Risk Assessment

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 120-129

  Fox, David R ^a  

^a Australian Centre for Environmetrics   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Natural resource management; Statistical inference; Trigger values

Indexed keywords

EID: 31544478294     PISSN: 10807039     EISSN: 15497860     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10807030500430476     Document Type: Conference Paper

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