Estimating transition probabilities in unmarked populations - entropy revisited

Bird Study

Volumn 46, Issue , 1999, Pages S55-S61

  Cooci, Evan G ^a   Link, William A ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENTROPY; POPULATION ECOLOGY; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

EID: 0033405405     PISSN: 00063657     EISSN: 19446705     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00063659909477232     Document Type: Article

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