Geoadditive regression modeling of stream biological condition

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 709-733

  Schmid, Matthias ^a   Hothorn, Torsten ^b   Maloney, Kelly O ^c   Weller, Donald E ^c   Potapov, Sergej ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Geoadditive regression; Gradient boosting; Maryland Biological Streams Survey; Proportional odds model; Stream biological condition

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; INDEX OF BIOTIC INTEGRITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STREAM; WATERSHED;

MARYLAND; UNITED STATES;

IBIS;

EID: 81555220933     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-010-0158-4     Document Type: Article

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