On tests of spatial pattern based on simulation envelopes

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 84, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 477-489

  Baddeley, Adrian ^a,b   Diggle, Peter J ^c,d   Hardegen, Andrew ^a   Lawrence, Thomas ^a   Milne, Robin K ^a   Nair, Gopalan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Confidence bands; Conservative test; Deviation test; Global test; K function; Monte Carlo test; Null model; Pair correlation function; Pointwise test; Scale of interaction; Spatial point pattern; Variance stabilization

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905640072     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 15577015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-2042.1     Document Type: Article

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