Estimating trend precision and power to detect trends across grouped count data

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 9, 2007, Pages 2364-2372

  Gray, Brian R ^a   Burlew, Michele M ^b  

^a UPPER MIDWEST ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b Episystems   (United States)

Author keywords

Count data; Fingernail clams; Hierarchical models; Negative binomial distribution; Power analysis; Precision; Trend detection

Indexed keywords

BIVALVE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; PRECISION;

MISSISSIPPI RIVER; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

AVES; BIVALVIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIVALVE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIVALVIA; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

EID: 38349041792     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/06-1714.1     Document Type: Article

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