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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alessandro Ferrarini
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Academy of Ecology and Environmental Sciences 2011-06-01
Series:Computational Ecology and Software
Subjects:
GIS
Online Access:http://www.iaees.org/publications/journals/ces/articles/2011-1(2)/Detecting-ecological-breakpoints.pdf