Correcting nesting-success estimates for observer effects: Maximum-likelihood estimates of daily survival rates with reduced bias

Auk

Volumn 117, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 92-109

  Rotella, Jay J ^a   Taper, Mark L ^a   Hansen, Andrew J ^a  

^a MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; NESTING; SURVIVAL;

EMPIDONAX OBERHOLSERI;

EID: 0033957788     PISSN: 00048038     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/auk/117.1.92     Document Type: Article

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