Managing the Essential Zeros in Quantitative Fatty Acid Signature Analysis

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 45-69

  Stewart, Connie ^a   Field, Christopher ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Compositional data; Diet estimation; Parametric mixture model; Pseudo seal

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA SET; DIET; FATTY ACID; NUMERICAL MODEL; PINNIPED; PREDATOR; PREY PREFERENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEABIRD;

EID: 79952442731     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: 15372693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13253-010-0040-8     Document Type: Article

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