Model structure adequacy analysis: Selecting models on the basis of their ability to answer scientific questions

Synthese

Volumn 163, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 357-370

  Taper, Mark L ^a   Staples, David F ^b   Shepard, Bradley B ^a,c  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^c Montana Cooperative Fishery Research Unit   (United States)

Author keywords

Bull trout; Model development; Model identification; Model selection; Monitoring; Multi model inference; Salvelinus confluentus

Indexed keywords

EID: 46249089476     PISSN: 00397857     EISSN: 15730964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11229-007-9299-x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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