Survival of bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus, estimated from 1981-1998 photoidentification data

Biometrics

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 832-840

  Zeh, Judith ^a   Poole, David ^b   Miller, Gary ^c   Koski, William ^c   Baraff, Lisa ^d   Rugh, David ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b AT AND T LABS RESEARCH   (United States)

^c LGL LIMITED   (Canada)

^d NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowhead whale; Capture recapture estimation; Cormack Jolly Seber models; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Maximum likelihood; Open population models; Photoidentification data; Survival rate

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CHAINS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; POPULATION STATISTICS;

BOWHEAD WHALES; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE ESTIMATION; CORMACK-JOLLY-SEBER MODEL; MA XIMUM LIKELIHOODS; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE CARLO; MARKOV CHAIN MONTE-CARLO; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD; OPEN-POPULATION MODEL; PHOTOIDENTIFICATION DATA; POPULATION MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE;

ANTENNAS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; POPULATION MODELING; SURVIVAL; WHALE;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; DATA ANALYSIS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; SURVIVAL RATE; WHALE;

BALAENA MYSTICETUS; BALAENIDAE; CETACEA;

EID: 0036966287     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2002.00832.x     Document Type: Article

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