Testing peatland testate amoeba transfer functions: Appropriate methods for clustered training-sets

Holocene

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 819-825

  Payne, Richard J ^a,b,j   Telford, Richard J ^c,j   Blackford, Jeffrey J ^b,j   Blundell, Antony ^d,j   Booth, Robert K ^e,j   Charman, Dan J ^f,j   Lamentowicz, Łukasz ^g,j   Lamentowicz, Mariusz ^g,j   Mitchell, Edward A D ^h,j   Potts, Genevieve ^b,j   Swindles, Graeme T ^d,j   Warner, Barry G ^i,j   Woodland, Wendy ^a,j  

^a MANCHESTER METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^e LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^g ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^j UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

cluster bootstrap; clustered data; leave one site out cross validation; palaeoclimate; transfer functions

Indexed keywords

BOOTSTRAPPING; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FOSSIL RECORD; HYDROLOGY; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; MODEL VALIDATION; OPTIMIZATION; PALEOCLIMATE; PALEOECOLOGY; PALEOENVIRONMENT; PEATLAND; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PROTOZOAN;

EID: 84861723909     PISSN: 09596836     EISSN: 14770911     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0959683611430412     Document Type: Article

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