Predicting the outcome of competition using experimental data: maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches.

From: Ecology | Date: March 1, 1996| Author: Kareiva, Peter; Pascual, Miguel A. | Copyright information

Lotka-Volterra (LV) equations have been used extensively to explore the possible dynamic outcomes of interspecific competition. But while there have been hundreds of papers on the mathematical properties of Lotka-Volterra models, there have been only a handful of papers that explore techniques for fitting these models to actual data, and no papers that explore the interface of experimental design and statistical inference when fitting LV equations to census data. In this paper we present a st...

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