A Method for Detecting Positive Growth Autocorrelation without Marking Individuals

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Brooks, Mollie E ^a,b   McCoy, Michael W ^a,c   Bolker, Benjamin M ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ALGORITHM; ANTHROPOMETRIC PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CORRELATIONAL STUDY; GROWTH RATE; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MORTALITY; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POSITIVE GROWTH AUTOCORRELATION; PREDICTION; SIMULATION;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANURA; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DENSITY;

EID: 84886630912     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0076389     Document Type: Article

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