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Hitchhikers’ guide to analysing bird ringing data

Ornis Hungarica
Volume 23 (2015): Issue 2 (December 2015)
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|Jan 2016
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/orhu-2015-0018 | Journal eISSN: 2061-9588 | Journal ISSN: 1215-1610
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Language: English, Hungarian
Page range: 163 - 188
Published on: Jan 13, 2016
Published by: MME/BirdLife Hungary
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
Publication frequency: 2 issues per year
Keywords:
data cleaning,
R statistical software,
banding data,
statistical analysis,
mark-recapture,
data management
Related subjects:
Life sciences,
Life sciences, other

© 2016 Andrea Harnos, Péter Fehérvári, Tibor Csörgő, published by MME/BirdLife Hungary
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