Alternative regression methods are not considered in Murtaugh (2009) or by ecologists in general

Ecology Letters

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Dahlgren, Johan P ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

AIC; All subsets; BIC; Lasso; Ridge regression; Shrinkage; Stepwise multiple regression; Variable selection

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHRINKAGE; THEORETICAL STUDY; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ECOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 77954245731     PISSN: 1461023X     EISSN: 14610248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2010.01460.x     Document Type: Article

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