How to make models add up - a primer on GLMMs

Annales Zoologici Fennici

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 124-137

  O'Hara, Robert B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

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Indexed keywords

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 67650700769     PISSN: 0003455X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5735/086.046.0205     Document Type: Article

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