Combining change-in-ratio, index-removal, and removal models for estimating population size

Biometrics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 815-827

  Chen, Chiu Lan ^a   Pollock, Kenneth H ^a   Hoenig, John M ^b  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal populations; Catch effort method; Change in ratio method; Combining likelihoods; Index removal method; Removal method; Sampling

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; POPULATION STATISTICS;

ANIMAL POPULATIONS; CATCH-EFFORT METHOD; CATCH/EFFORT; CHANGE-IN-RATIO METHOD; COMBINING LIKELIHOOD; INDEX-REMOVAL METHOD; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; RATIO METHOD; REMOVAL METHOD;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

ESTIMATION METHOD; POPULATION SIZE;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HEALTH SURVEY; POPULATION; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; STATISTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ANIMALIA; CHIONOECETES OPILIO; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA);

EID: 0031660542     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533836     Document Type: Article

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