CLASSIFICATION AND REGRESSION TREES: A POWERFUL YET SIMPLE TECHNIQUE FOR ECOLOGICAL DATA ANALYSIS
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Summary
This work uses classification and regression trees to analyze survey data from the Australian central Great Barrier Reef, comprising abundances of soft coral taxa and physical and spatial environmental information and shows how linear models fail to find patterns uncovered by the trees.
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- article
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- 2000-11-01
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Keywords
Categorical variable, Regression diagnostic, Regression analysis, Statistics, Linear discriminant analysis
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