Modeling and inference of animal movement using artificial neural networks

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 393-410

  Tracey, Jeff A ^a,b   Zhu, Jun ^a,c   Crooks, Kevin R ^a  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^b SigmaLogistic Consulting Inc   (United States)

^c University of Wisconsin   (United States)

Author keywords

Circular Statistics; Genetic algorithm; Movement path; Semi parametric model; Telemetry data; von Mises distribution

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; GENETIC ALGORITHM; MOVEMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELEMETRY;

ANIMALIA; CROTALUS;

EID: 84860389702     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-010-0138-8     Document Type: Article

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