Correction of bias due to heterogeneous capture probability in capture- recapture studies of open populations

Biometrics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 888-898

  Pledger, Shirley ^a   Efford, Murray ^b  

^a VICTORIA UNIVERSITY OF WELLINGTON   (New Zealand)

^b LANDCARE RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Caxother's simulation method; Cormack Jolly Seber; Heterogeneity of capture; Inverse prediction; Open population models

Indexed keywords

INVERSE PROBLEMS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

CAPTURE PROBABILITIES; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE; CAXOTHER SIMULATION METHOD; CORMACK-JOLLY- SEBER; HETEROGENEITY OF CAPTURE; INVERSE PREDICTION; OPEN POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION SIZES; SURVIVAL RATE;

ECOLOGY;

HETEROGENEITY; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; POPULATION ESTIMATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; NEW ZEALAND; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PREDATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALIA; PHALANGERIDAE;

EID: 0031702868     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2533843     Document Type: Article

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