Ontology highlight
ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Correia HE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC9266660 | biostudies-literature | 2022
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Journal of applied statistics 20210224 8
Varying coefficient models (VCMs) are commonly used for their high degree of flexibility in modeling complex systems. Many applications in fisheries utilize VCMs to capture spatial variation in populations of marine fishes. All of these applications use the penalized least squares method for estimation. However, this approach is known to be sensitive to non-normal distributions and outliers, a common feature of ecological data. Robust estimation methods are more appropriate for handling noisy an ...[more]