WIT Press

The SAMSARA Effect: A Brownian Motion Of Coefficients Of Determination In Ecological Models

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

34

Pages

9

Published

1999

Size

728 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/ECO990331

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

J.L. Uso, J. Mateu, P. Salvador, Y. Villacampa & P. Sastre

Abstract

A flow equation obtained through multiple linear regression is a static concept, fixed for a time t. However, experience says that the temporal component makes the information obtained from the flow equation change in terms of the coefficient of determination. In this paper we show that a 1-degree variation in such coefficients behaves like a Brownian motion based on a gaussian distribution. Such motion is called here the Samsara effect of the coefficients of determination.We then use a practical real case to show how this

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