Statistical modelling of communities and ecosystems using the LAMDA software tool

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 25, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1905-1908

  Viscido, Steven V ^a   Holmes, Elizabeth E ^b  

^a WINSTON SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Community model; Interaction matrix; Multivariate auto regressive first order model; Simulated annealing; Time series

Indexed keywords

AUTO-REGRESSIVE; COMMUNITY DYNAMICS; COMMUNITY MODEL; COMMUNITY STABILITY; COMPUTATION SPEED; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA INPUT; ESTIMATED MODEL; FIRST-ORDER; INTERACTION MATRICES; INTERACTION PARAMETERS; LEAST SQUARE; ML ESTIMATION; MODEL SELECTION; MULTI-SPECIES; PERFORMANCE TESTS; SEARCH ALGORITHMS; SIMULATED DATA; SOFTWARE PROGRAM; SOFTWARE TOOL; SPECIES INTERACTIONS; STATISTICAL MODELLING; TIME-SERIES DATA;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; METADATA; SIGNAL ENCODING; STABILITY; TIME SERIES;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

ALGORITHM; BOOTSTRAPPING; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; LEAST SQUARES METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOFTWARE; TIME SERIES;

EID: 84755160644     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2010.05.010     Document Type: Article

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