Statistical inference for noisy nonlinear ecological dynamic systems

2010/08/01 by Simon N. Wood · 578 citations
Environmental Science · Mathematics · #Animal Ecology and Behavior Studies #Artificial intelligence #Chaotic #Computer science #Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies #Ecosystem dynamics and resilience #Inference #Machine learning #Mathematics #Noise (video) #Observable #Physics #Population #Statistical hypothesis testing #Statistical inference #Statistical model #Statistics

paper · open access · doi:10.1038/nature09319

published in Nature 466(7310), 1102-1104 (Nature Portfolio)

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