Modelling fish growth: Model selection, multi-model inference and model selection uncertainty

Fisheries Research

Volumn 81, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 229-235

  Katsanevakis, Stelios ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bertalanffy; Gompertz; Growth models; Logistic; Schnute Richards

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; DATA SET; FISH; GROWTH MODELING; METHODOLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION;

EID: 33748895112     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2006.07.002     Document Type: Article

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