Detecting ecological breakpoints: a new tool for piecewise regression
Simple linear regression tries to determine a linear relationship between a given variable X (predictor) and a dependent variable Y. Since most of the environmental problems involve complex relationships, X-Y relationship is often better modeled through a regression where, instead of fitting a singl...
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Language: | English |
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International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences
2011-06-01
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Series: | Computational Ecology and Software |
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Online Access: | http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/ces/articles/2011-1(2)/Detecting-ecological-breakpoints.pdf |