Quantile regression applied to spectral distance decay

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 640-643

  Rocchini, Duccio ^a   Cade, Brian S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

^b FORT COLLINS SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Distance decay; Environmental gradients; Quantile regressions

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; DECAY (ORGANIC); ECOLOGY;

DISTANCE DECAY; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ORDINARY LEAST SQUARES; QUANTILE REGRESSION; REGRESSION ESTIMATES; REMOTELY SENSED IMAGERY; RESIDUAL SUM OF SQUARES; SPECIES COMPOSITION;

REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 55649122321     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.2001767     Document Type: Article

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