History of multimodel inference via model selection in wildlife science

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 79, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 704-707

  Lindberg, Mark S ^a   Schmidt, Joshua H ^b   Walker, Johann ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL PARK SERVICE   (United States)

^c Ducks Unlimited Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

AIC; history; hypothesis testing; inference; model selection; multimodel

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MODEL VALIDATION; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84932198517     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: 19372817     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jwmg.892     Document Type: Article

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