Controlling for varying effort in count surveys - An analysis of christmas bird count data

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 116-125

  Link, William A ^a   Sauer, John R ^a  

^a PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Loglinear models; Longitudinal data

Indexed keywords

AVES;

EID: 0001616576     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/1400592     Document Type: Article

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