Zero-inflated beta distribution for modeling the proportions in quantitative fatty acid signature analysis

Journal of Applied Statistics

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 985-992

  Stewart, Connie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK   (Canada)

Author keywords

diet estimation; mixture distributions; proportions; zero inflated beta distribution; zero inflated logistic distribution

Indexed keywords

EID: 84877578779     PISSN: 02664763     EISSN: 13600532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2013.769088     Document Type: Article

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