Using observation-level randomeffects to model overdispersion in count data in ecology and evolution

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Volumn 2014, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Harrison, Xavier A ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Explained variance; Generalized linear mixed models; Observation level random effect; Poisson lognormal models; Quasi Poisson; R squared

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOLOGY; EVOLUTION; EXTRA POISSON NOISE SIMULATION; NEGATIVE BINOMIAL SIMULATION; OBSERVATION LEVEL RANDOM EFFECT; OVERDISPERSION; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON LOGNORMAL MODEL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL BIAS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; ZERO INFLATED POISSON SIMULATION;

EID: 84910668928     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.616     Document Type: Article

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