Finite Mixture of Regression Modeling for High-Dimensional Count and Biomass Data in Ecology

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 357-375

  Dunstan, Piers K ^a   Foster, Scott D ^a   Hui, Francis K C ^b   Warton, David I ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Community level model; Mixture model; Multi species; Species archetype model; Species distribution model; Tweedie

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BIOMASS; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ECOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL GRADIENT; ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE; INTERSPECIFIC VARIATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 84884673047     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: 15372693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13253-013-0146-x     Document Type: Article

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