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Key factor analysis is a term that has become standard for methods for analyzing data on the total numbers entering the stages for a series of sucessive egenerations of a stage structured population. This paper is a review of these methods, concentrating on ones that have developed from Varley & Gradwell’s graphical method based on k values. The winter moth in Wytham Wood is used as an example.
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Manly, B.F.J. (1989). A Review of Methods for Key Factor Analysis. In: McDonald, L.L., Manly, B.F.J., Lockwood, J.A., Logan, J.A. (eds) Estimation and Analysis of Insect Populations. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 55. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-3664-1_11
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