A Poisson-Gamma model for analysis of ecological non-negative continuous data

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 533-552

  Foster, Scott D ^a   Bravington, Mark V ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Compound gamma; Compound poisson; Generalised linear models; Poisson mixture of gammas; Tweedie; Zeros

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FISH; NUMERICAL MODEL; POISSON RATIO; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIZE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TRAWLING;

AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84888061859     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-012-0233-0     Document Type: Article

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