A new family of Fisher-curves estimates Fisher's alpha more accurately

Journal of Theoretical Biology

Volumn 232, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 305-313

  Schulte, Rogier P O ^a   Lantinga, Egbert A ^b   Hawkins, Michael J ^c  

^a TEAGASC   (Ireland)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Clustering; Individuals; Log series model; Species richness

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ESTIMATION METHOD; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPECIES RICHNESS;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FISHER EXACT TEST; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOLECULAR MODEL; PARAMETER; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RATING SCALE; REACTION OPTIMIZATION; TECHNIQUE;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; ECOSYSTEM; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALIA; MARTES PENNANTI;

EID: 9644282919     PISSN: 00225193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2004.08.014     Document Type: Article

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