Bias and confidence interval coverage of creel survey estimators evaluated by simulation

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 127, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 469-480

  Rasmussen, Paul W ^a   Staggs, Michael D ^a   Beard, T Douglas ^a   Newman, Steven P ^a  

^a WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATCH PER UNIT EFFORT; ESTIMATION METHOD; HARVESTING; SPORT FISHING;

ESCANABA LAKE; USA; WISCONSIN;

EID: 0031820058     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/1548-8659(1998)127<0469:BACICO>2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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