Spatial leave-one-out cross-validation for variable selection in the presence of spatial autocorrelation

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 23, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 811-820

  Le Rest, Kévin ^a   Pinaud, David ^a   Monestiez, Pascal ^a,b,c   Chadoeuf, Joël ^c   Bretagnolle, Vincent ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CEMAGREF   (France)

^c INRA   (France)

Author keywords

AIC; Common buzzard Buteo buteo; GLM; Residual spatial autocorrelation; Simulations; Spatial cross validation

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AUTOCORRELATION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA SET; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; NUMERICAL MODEL; RAPTOR; SOFTWARE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DATA;

BUTEO BUTEO;

EID: 84902083123     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12161     Document Type: Article

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