An assessment of the effect of data partitioning on the performance of modelling algorithms for habitat suitability for ticks

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 248-257

  Estrada Pena A ^a   Thuiller, W ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Accuracy; Climate niche modelling; Clustering; Marginality; Predictive prevalence; Ticks

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CLIMATE MODELING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA PROCESSING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; LOCAL ADAPTATION; NDVI; NICHE; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; TICK;

AFRICA; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; TICK;

AFRICA; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; IXODIDAE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

ACARI; BOOPHILUS; BOOPHILUS DECOLORATUS; IXODIDA; IXODIDAE;

EID: 49749113286     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2008.00745.x     Document Type: Article

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