Statistical learning procedures for monitoring regulatory compliance: An application to fisheries data

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 671-689

  Lennert Cody, Cleridy E ^a   Berk, Richard A ^b  

^a INTER AMERICAN TROPICAL TUNA COMMISSION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Data quality; Ensemble; Environmental monitoring; Fisheries; Random forest

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250377932     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2006.00460.x     Document Type: Article

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