Estimating bowhead whale population size and rate of increase from the 1993 census

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 93, Issue 442, 1998, Pages 451-463

  Raftery, Adrian E ^a   Zeh, Judith E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayes empirical Bayes; Capture recapture; Generalized linear model; Jackknife; Missing data; Negative binomial; Overdispersion; Removal method; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0032376063     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.1998.10473694     Document Type: Article

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