The value of a datum - how little data do we need for a quantitative risk analysis?

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 617-628

  Leung, Brian ^a   Steele, Russell J ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Hierarchical; Mixed model; Population viability analysis; Simulation; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PROBABILITY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SIMULATION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84877343401     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12062     Document Type: Article

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