Power analysis for trend in ordinal cover classes: Implications for long-term vegetation monitoring

Journal of Vegetation Science

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1152-1161

  Irvine, Kathryn M ^a   Rodhouse, Thomas J ^b  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta distribution; Latent variable; Ordered categorical data; Plant abundance; Proportional odds model; Sample size; Trend detection

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOMONITORING; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; LOGISTICS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION; VEGETATION COVER;

EID: 78049295160     PISSN: 11009233     EISSN: 16541103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1654-1103.2010.01214.x     Document Type: Article

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