Strengthening statistical usage in marine ecology: Linear regression

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 474, Issue , 2016, Pages 81-91

  Boldina, Inna ^a   Beninger, Peter G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE NANTES   (France)

Author keywords

Assumptions; Ecology; Linear; Regression; Statistics

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; LINEARITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84944472729     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jembe.2015.09.010     Document Type: Review

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