Graphical and statistical methods for determining the consistency of age determinations

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 1995, Pages 131-138

  Campana, Steven E ^a   Christina Annand, M ^a   McMillan, James I ^a  

^a BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029142085     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1995)124[0131:GASMFD]2.3.CO;2     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Baker, T. T., and L. S. Timmons, 1991. Precision of ages estimated from five bony structures of Arctic char (Salvelinus alpinus) from the Wood River System, Alaska. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 48: 1007-1014.
2. Beamish, R. J., and D. A. Fournier, 1981. A method for comparing the precision of a set of age determinations. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 38: 982-983.
3. Beamish, R. J., and G. A. McFarlane, 1983. The forgotten requirement for age validation in fisheries biology. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society 112: 735-743.
4. Boehlert, G. W., and M. M. Yoklavich, 1984. Variability in age estimates in Sebastes as a function of methodology, different readers, and different laboratories. California Fish and Game 70: 210-224.
5. Bowker, A. H. 1948. A test for symmetry in contingency tables. JASA (Journal of the American Statistical Association) 43: 572-574.
6. Campana, S. E., and E. Moksness, 1991. Accuracy and precision of age and hatch date estimates from otolith microstructure examination. ICES (International Council for the Exploration of the Sea) Journal of Marine Science 48: 303-316.
7. Campana, S. E., and J. D. Neilson, 1985. Microstructure of fish otoliths. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 42: 1014-1032.
8. Casselman, J. M. 1987. Determination of age and growth. Pages 209-242 in A. H. Weatherley and H. S. Gill, editors. The biology of fish growth. Academic Press, New York.
9. Chang, W. Y. B. 1982. A statistical method for evaluating the reproducibility of age determination. Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 39: 1208-1210.
10. Conover, W. J. 1980. Practical nonparametric statistics. Wiley, Toronto.
11. Geffen, A. J. 1992. Validation of otolith increment deposition rate. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 117: 101-113.
12. Hayes, D. B. 1993. A statistical method for evaluating differences between age-length keys with application to Georges Bank haddock, Melanogrammus aeglefinus. U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service Fishery Bulletin 91: 550-557.
13. Kimura, D. K., and J. J. Lyons, 1991. Between-reader bias and variability in the age-determination process. U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service Fishery Bulletin 89: 53-60.
14. Wilson, C. A., Chairman, and Glossary Committee, 1987. Glossary. Pages 527-530 in R. C. Summer-felt and G. E. Hall, editors. Age and growth of fish. Iowa State University Press, Ames.