%0 Journal Article
%T Stable Isotope Sourcing Using Sampling
%A Erik B. Erhardt
%A Blair O. Wolf
%A Merav Ben-David
%A Edward J. Bedrick
%J Open Journal of Ecology
%P 289-298
%@ 2162-1993
%D 2014
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/oje.2014.46027
%X <p style=\"text-align:justify;\">
	<span style=\"font-size:12px;\">Stable isotope
mixing models are used to estimate proportional contributions of sources to a
mixture, such as in the analysis of animal diets, plant nutrient use,
geochemistry, pollution, and forensics. We describe an algorithm implemented as
SISUS software for providing a user-specified number of probabilistic exact
solutions derived quickly from the extended mixing model. Our method
outperforms IsoSource </span><span style=\"font-size:12px;\"><span style=\"font-size:12px;\">[1]</span></span><span style=\"font-size:12px;\">,
a deterministic algorithm for providing approximate solutions to represent the
solution polytope. Our method is an approximate Bayesian large sample procedure.
SISUS software is freely available at StatAcumen.com/sisus and as an R package
at cran.r-project.org/web/packages/sisus.</span> 
</p>
%K SISUS
%K IsoSource
%K Mixing Model
%K Animal Ecology
%K Markov Chain Monte Carlo
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=46187