Modeling the effects of varying data quality on trend detection in environmental monitoring

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 167-176

  Sulkava, Mika ^a   Luyssaert, Sebastiaan ^b   Rautio, Pasi ^c   Janssens, Ivan A ^b   Hollmén, Jaakko ^a  

^a AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^c FINNISH FOREST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Data quality; Heteroscedastic errors; Linear models; Monitoring programs; Trend detection

Indexed keywords

DATA QUALITY; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; SAMPLING; TREND ANALYSIS;

EID: 34548475069     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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