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Predicting Multivariate Abundances

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Consider again Lena’s wind farm study (Exercise 14.3). She would like to predict what fish occur where.

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Warton, D.I. (2022). Predicting Multivariate Abundances. In: Eco-Stats: Data Analysis in Ecology. Methods in Statistical Ecology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-88443-7_15

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