Maximum likelihood method for predicting environmental conditions from assemblage composition: The R package bio.infer

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1-20

  Yuan, Lester L ^a,b  

^a US Environmental Protection Agency ^*

^b U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

Author keywords

Environmental prediction; Maximum likelihood; Paleolimnology; R; Weighted averaging

Indexed keywords

EID: 37649011015     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: 15487660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v022.i03     Document Type: Article

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