Likelihood cross-validation versus least squares cross-validation for choosing the smoothing parameter in kernel home-range analysis

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 70, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 641-648

  Horne, Jon S ^a   Garton, Edward O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

Author keywords

Home range; Kernel methods; Kullback Leibler distance; Least squares cross validation; Likelihood cross validation; Smoothing parameter; Utilization distribution

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ESTIMATION METHOD; HOME RANGE; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; SMOOTHING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 33646730337     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/0022-541X(2006)70[641:LCVLSC]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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