Avoiding pitfalls when using information-theoretic methods

被引：985

作者：

Anderson, DR ^{[1
]}

Burnham, KP ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Colorado State Univ, Colorado Cooperat Fish & Wildlife Res Unit, Ft Collins, CO 80523 USA

来源：

JOURNAL OF WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT | 2002年 / 66卷 / 03期

关键词：

Akaike's Information Criterion; analysis guidelines; information-theoretic methods; Kullback-Leibler information; model selection uncertainty; modeling; P-values;

D O I：

10.2307/3803155

中图分类号：

Q14 [生态学（生物生态学）];

学科分类号：

071012 ; 0713 ;

摘要：

We offer suggestions to avoid misuse of information-theoretic methods in wildlife laboratory and field studies. Our suggestions relate to basic science issues and the need to ask deeper questions (4 problems are noted), errors in the way that analytical methods are used (7 problems), and outright mistakes seen commonly in the published literature (5 problems). We assume that readers are familiar with the information-theoretic approaches and provide several examples of misuse. Any method can be misused-our purpose here is to suggest constructive ways to avoid misuse.

引用

页码：912 / 918

页数：7

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