Assessing environmental impact on riparian benthic community vigor with unconditional estimates of quantile differences

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 29-53

  Cooper, Cynthia ^a  

^a BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Counterfactual distribution; Oaxaca Blinder decomposition; Quantile regression

Indexed keywords

BENTHOS; DECOMPOSITION ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FITNESS; MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RIPARIAN ZONE;

EQUUS ASINUS;

EID: 77049094667     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-008-0100-1     Document Type: Article

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