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MortalitySmooth: An R Package for Smoothing Poisson Counts with P-Splines

Journal of Statistical Software, 2012
The MortalitySmooth package provides a framework for smoothing count data in both one- and two-dimensional settings. Although general in its purposes, the package is specifically tailored to demographers, actuaries, epidemiologists, and geneticists who ...
Carlo G. Camarda
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Ecosystem size reverses the effect of the spatial coupling between autotrophic and heterotrophic ecosystems

Oikos, EarlyView.
The flow of non‐living resources between autotrophic and heterotrophic ecosystems can impact their ecosystem function. However, ecosystem size is similarly known to influence ecological properties and it is uncertain how the size of coupled ecosystems mediates the effect of resource flows.
Emanuele Giacomuzzo, Tianna Peller, Isabelle Gounand, Florian Altermatt   +3 more
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Functional diversity in agricultural landscapes: evidence of long‐term clustering and multi‐scale effects of land use on avian communities

Oikos, EarlyView.
Functional diversity (FD) is an essential community property connecting biodiversity, ecosystem functioning, and conservation objectives. In agricultural landscapes, avian communities, which play key functional roles, are facing large‐scale biodiversity erosion, largely due to land‐use changes.
Pietro Tirozzi, Olivia Dondina, Valerio Orioli, Luciano Bani   +3 more
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A Comparison of the Robust Zero-Inflated and Hurdle Models with an Application to Maternal Mortality

Mathematical and Computational Applications
This study evaluates the performance of count regression models in the presence of zero inflation, outliers, and overdispersion using both simulated and real-world maternal mortality dataset.
Phelo Pitsha, Raymond T. Chiruka, Chioneso S. Marange   +2 more
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The zero inflated negative binomial – Crack distribution: some properties and parameter estimation [PDF]

Songklanakarin Journal of Science and Technology (SJST), 2015
The zero inflated negative binomial-Crack (ZINB-CR) distribution is a mixture of Bernoulli distribution and negative binomial-Crack (NB-CR) distribution, which is an alternative distribution for the excessive zero counts and overdispersion.
Pornpop Saengthong, Winai Bodhisuwan, Ampai Thongteeraparp   +2 more
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Inequalities in intraspecific plant–lemur interactions drive seed dispersal patterns

Oikos, EarlyView.
Biotic interactions occur between individuals and accumulate to shape species‐level interaction structure across a community. Skewed interaction structures, where a few individuals are highly connected and most have few interactions, are increasingly identified at the individual‐level.
Jadelys Tonos, Hasinavalona Rakotoarisoa, Onja H. Razafindratsima   +2 more
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Age ratio in groups of a social ungulate affects epizoochorous dispersal and diaspore exchanges

Oikos, EarlyView.
Animal‐mediated seed dispersal is a key process in plant population dynamics, species distribution and ecosystem functioning. As long‐distance dispersal agents, ungulates help to maintain native plant populations facing abiotic changes in their habitat and habitat fragmentation or habitat loss.
Antoine Roux, Cloé Balson, Morgane Audiguier, Marie Battista, Didier Marcon, Olivier Pays, Christophe Baltzinger   +6 more
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An Alternative Estimator for Poisson–Inverse-Gaussian Regression: The Modified Kibria–Lukman Estimator

Algorithms
Poisson regression is used to model count response variables. The method has a strict assumption that the mean and variance of the response variable are equal, while, in practice, the case of overdispersion is common.
Rasha A. Farghali, Adewale F. Lukman, Zakariya Algamal, Murat Genc, Hend Attia   +4 more
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Approche poissonnienne des modèles d’interaction spatiale

Cybergeo, 2000
This paper deals with specification, estimation and tests of the models based on count data, especially the Poisson regression analysis of spatial flows.
G. D’Aubigny, Christian Calzada, Claude Grasland, D. Robert, G. Viho, Jean-Marc Vincent   +5 more
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Partial recovery of large seed arrival following ecological restoration in fragmented tropical rainforests

Oikos, EarlyView.
Forest restoration success depends crucially on the reinitiation of ecological processes such as seed arrival that drive natural regeneration. We know little about whether, by increasing and diversifying local seed sources to alleviate seed limitation, and attracting animal frugivores to alleviate dispersal limitation, restoration could shift seed ...
Aparna Krishnan, Jyotsna Nag, S. Arun, Divya Mudappa, T. R. Shankar Raman, Mahesh Sankaran, Anand M. Osuri   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source