Plotting partial correlation and regression in ecological studies

Web Ecology

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages 35-46

  Moya Laraño, Jordi ^a   Corcobado, Guadalupe ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE ECOLOGÍA FUNCIONAL Y EVOLUTIVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA QUALITY; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; LINEARITY; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; VISUALIZATION;

EID: 45149125141     PISSN: None     EISSN: 13991183     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/we-8-35-2008     Document Type: Article

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