Including model uncertainty in estimating variances in multiple capture studies

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 235-244

  Norris III, James L ^a   Pollock, Kenneth H ^b  

^a WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bootstrap; Full probability model; Model selection; Non parametric statistics

Indexed keywords

METHOD COMPARISON; MODEL UNCERTAINTY; MULTIPLE CAPTURE STUDY; STATISTICS; VARIANCE ESTIMATION;

EID: 0030428184     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00453012     Document Type: Article

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