Modelling zero-inflated fish counts in estuaries - A comparison of alternate statistical distributions

MODSIM05 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Advances and Applications for Management and Decision Making, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 2581-2587

  Mayer, D ^a   Roy, D ^b   Robins, J ^b   Halliday, I ^b   Sellin, M ^b  

^a Animal Research Institute   (Australia)

^b Southern Fisheries Centre   (Australia)

Author keywords

Assemblages; Delta distribution; Environmental flows; Generalized linear model; GenStat

Indexed keywords

ASSEMBLAGES; DELTA-DISTRIBUTION; ENVIRONMENTAL FLOW; GENERALIZED LINEAR MODEL; GENSTAT; CONDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION; CONTINUOUS DISTRIBUTION; DIFFERENT DISTRIBUTIONS; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL MODELS; OPTIMISATION PROCEDURES; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; TRUNCATED LOG-NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

COASTAL ZONES; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTUARIES; FISHERIES; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; RESEARCH; STATISTICS; TURBIDITY; WATER MANAGEMENT; FISH; RIVER POLLUTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WATER;

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 77958159092     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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