Data quality in thermal summation development models for forensically important blowflies

Medical and Veterinary Entomology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 269-276

  Richards, C S ^a   Villet, M H ^a  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Analytic precision; Chrysomya megacephala; Developmental zero (D 0); Forensic entomology; Reduced major axis regression; Thermal summation constant (K); Thermal summation models

Indexed keywords

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA QUALITY; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLY; FORENSIC SCIENCE; LARVAL DEVELOPMENT; NOISE; SAMPLING; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL FOOD; ARTICLE; CADAVER; EGG LAYING; FEMALE; FLY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; LARVA; METHODOLOGY; MOLTING; PARASITOLOGY; PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY; SOUTH AFRICA; TEMPERATURE; ZOOLOGY;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; DIPTERA; ENTOMOLOGY; FEMALE; FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; LARVA; MOLTING; OVIPOSITION; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SOUTH AFRICA; TEMPERATURE;

CALLIPHORIDAE; CHRYSOMYA MEGACEPHALA; DIPTERA;

EID: 68949117728     PISSN: 0269283X     EISSN: 13652915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2915.2009.00819.x     Document Type: Article

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