Statistical inference on patch-specific survival and movement rates from marked animals

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 99-116

  Conroy, Michael J ^a   Anderson, Jon E ^a,b   Rathbun, Stephen L ^a   Krementz, David G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c National Biological Service   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal behaviour; Habitat use; Logistic regression; Mortality; Population model; Proportional hazards; Risk

Indexed keywords

MARKING; STATISTICAL BIAS;

SCOLOPAX MINOR;

EID: 0030460495     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/bf02427854     Document Type: Article

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