Statistical versus biological hypothesis testing: Response to Steidl

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 71, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 2120-2121

  Sleep, D J H ^a   Drever, M C ^b   Nudds, T D ^c  

^a NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR AIR AND STREAM IMPROVEMENT   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Akaike's Information Criterion; Biological hypothesis; Frequentist; Hypothesis testing; Information theoretic approach; Statistical hypothesis

Indexed keywords

EID: 48249119932     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2007-140     Document Type: Note

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