FALCON: A software package for analysis of nestedness in bipartite networks

F1000Research

Volumn 3, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Beckett, Stephen J ^a   Boulton, Chris A ^a   Williams, Hywel T P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BIPARTITE NETWORK; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; NESTEDNESS; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 84923250410     PISSN: 20461402     EISSN: 1759796X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12688/f1000research.4831.1     Document Type: Article

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