The pairwise reciprocal matrix (PRM) of the analytic hierarchy/network process has been investigated by many scholars. However, there are significant queries about the appropriateness of using the PRM ...

Biological networks have so many possible states that exhaustive sampling is impossible. Successful analysis thus depends on simplifying hypotheses, but experiments on many systems hint that ...

Veech (2013, Global Ecology and Biogeography, 22, 252-260) introduced a formula to calculate the probability of two species co-occurring in various sites under the assumption of statistical ...