Modeling heterogeneity in nest survival data

Biometrics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 553-559

  Natarajan, Ranjini ^a   McCulloch, Charles E ^b  

^a University of Florida   (United States)

^b Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

Author keywords

Daily survival rate; Heterogeneity; Likelihood ratio test; Mayfield's method; Nest success; Numerical integration; Overdispersion; Random effects

Indexed keywords

RANDOM PROCESSES;

DAILY SURVIVAL RATE; HETEROGENEITY; LIKELIHOOD RATIO TESTS; MAYFIELD METHOD; NEST SUCCESS; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; OVERDISPERSION; RANDOM EFFECTS; SURVIVAL DATA; SURVIVAL RATE;

NUMERICAL METHODS;

HETEROGENEITY; MODELING; NEST; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BIOMETRY; BIRD; DATA ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE;

AVES; TURDUS ILIACUS;

EID: 0033044748     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.00553.x     Document Type: Article

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