Home Range: A Weighted Normal Estimate and Tests of Underlying Assumptions
- 1 April 1985
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The Journal of Wildlife Management
- Vol. 49 (2) , 513-519
- https://doi.org/10.2307/3801564
Abstract
A robust estimation procedure is proposed to identify and reduce the influence of extreme locations for the bivariate normal home-range method. Tests are proposed for validating the underlying probability distribution from observed animal locations. Location data from a black bear (Ursus americanus) are used to demonstrate the effect of outliers on size and orientation of home-range estimates and to illustrate the goodness-of-fit tests.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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