Using the negative binomial distribution to model overdispersion in ecological count data

Ecology

Volumn 92, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1414-1421

  Lindén, Andreas ^a   Mäntyniemi, Samu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

Author keywords

Bird migration; Count data; Environmental stochasticity; Flocking; Generalized linear models; Mean variance relationship; Negative binomial distribution; Overdispersion; Poisson process; Sampling error

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; BIRD; DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERROR ANALYSIS; MIGRATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; POISSON RATIO; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; STOCHASTICITY; THEORETICAL STUDY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIRD; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION MIGRATION; SEASON; TIME;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BIRDS; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SEASONS; TIME FACTORS;

AVES;

EID: 79960459057     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/10-1831.1     Document Type: Article

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