A Microsoft Excel program for bootstrap estimates of reproductive-life table parameters

Iranipour, Shahzad

doi:10.48311/jcp.2018.1390

A Microsoft Excel program for bootstrap estimates of reproductive-life table parameters

https://doi.org/10.48311/jcp.2018.1390

Volume 7, Issue 3
September 2018

Pages 247-258

Author

S. Iranipour

Department of Plant Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran.

Abstract

Demographic parameters such as intrinsic rate of increase estimates are of main interest in a wide range of ecological researches. Two widely used uncertainty estimate techniques are bootstrap and jackknife methods. Bootstrap estimates are time-consuming processes that are impossible to use without a computer program. Unfortunately few programs, if any, have been developed for this task. In this study a guideline was offered to prepare a program in Microsoft Excel environment to carry out time-consuming calculations of reproductive life table data in a minute or two by repeatedly pressing a shortcut key.

Keywords

Software

life-history parameters

Uncertainty

resampling techniques

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Subjects

Acarology (Biological Control)

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