Modelling data from different sites, times or studies: Weighted vs. unweighted regression

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 168-176

  Fletcher, David ^a   Dixon, Philip M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Department of Statistics Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence Iowa State University 2438 Osborn Dr Ames   (United States)

Author keywords

Coverage rate; Measurement error; Meta regression; Process error; Residual maximum likelihood; Weighted regression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865436868     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.2041-210X.2011.00140.x     Document Type: Article

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