Confidence intervals for expected abundance of rare species

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 315-324

  Fletcher, David ^a   Faddy, Malcolm ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conditional model; Negative binomial; Profile likelihood; Skewness; Zero inflation

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; INFLATION; MODELING; RARE SPECIES; RESEARCH; SKEWNESS;

EID: 56349150023     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: 15372693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/108571107X229322     Document Type: Article

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