Contrasting Diversity Values: Statistical Inferences Based on Overlapping Confidence Intervals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  MacGregor Fors, Ian ^a   Payton, Mark E ^b  

^a INSTITUTO DE ECOLOGÍA   (Mexico)

^b OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; SIMULATION; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WILDLIFE;

BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; MODELS, STATISTICAL;

EID: 84874282823     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0056794     Document Type: Article

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