Constrain to perform: Regularization of habitat models

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 193, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 675-690

  Reineking, Björn ^a,b   Schröder, Boris ^c  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Habitat models; Lasso; Logistic regression; Model selection; Penalized maximum likelihood; Prediction; Regularization; Ridge; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT;

HABITAT MODELS; REGULARIZATION; VARIABLE SELECTION;

OCEAN HABITATS;

HABITAT TYPE; MODEL; MODEL VALIDATION; PREDICTION; SELECTION;

EID: 32644490007     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.10.003     Document Type: Article

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