Pleydell, David R.J.; Chrétien, Stéphane - In: Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 54 (2010) 5, pp. 1405-1418
A new approach to species distribution modelling based on unsupervised classification via a finite mixture of GAMs incorporating habitat suitability curves is proposed. A tailored EM algorithm is outlined for computing maximum likelihood estimates. Several submodels incorporating various...