On the near-singularity of models for animal recovery data

Biometrics

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 720-726

  Catchpole, E A ^a,c   Kgosi, P M ^b   Morgan, B J T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BOTSWANA   (Botswana)

Author keywords

Design; Information matrix; Near singularity; Parameter redundancy; Perturbation approximation; Ring recovery data; Smallest eigenvalue

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

INFORMATION MATRIX; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; NEAR SINGULARITY; PARAMETER REDUNDANCY; PERTURBATION APPROXIMATION; PROBABILITY MODELLING; RING RECOVERY DATA; SMALLEST EIGENVALUE; WILD ANIMALS;

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; WILDLIFE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0034862217     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2001.00720.x     Document Type: Article

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