Dealing with heterogeneous regression slopes in analysis of covariance: New methodology applied to environmental effects monitoring fish survey data

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 166, Issue 1-4, 2010, Pages 279-291

  Barrett, Timothy J ^a   Tingley, Maureen A ^b   Munkittrick, Kelly R ^a   Lowell, Richard B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^c ENVIRONMENT CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

ANCOVA; Coefficient of determination; Covariate; Fish population; Influential points; Leverage

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCES; COEFFICIENT OF DETERMINATION; COVARIATES; CRITICAL EFFECTS; DATA SETS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECTS MONITORING; FISH POPULATIONS; FISH SURVEY; META ANALYSIS; MILL MONITORING; PULP AND PAPER; PULP AND PAPER MILL; REGRESSION SLOPE; STANDARD ASSUMPTIONS;

FISH; FISHERIES; MONITORING; PULP; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

PAPER AND PULP MILLS;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT; FISH; HETEROGENEITY; META-ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; NONHUMAN; PAPER INDUSTRY; PULP MILL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISHES; LINEAR MODELS; ORGAN SIZE; POPULATION GROWTH; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

CANADA; FISHES; MONITORING; PAPER MILLS; PULP MILLS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SURVEYS;

EID: 77954144060     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-009-1001-y     Document Type: Article

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