Errors in transforming length samples to age frequencies without age samples

Fisheries Research

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 235-243

  Parrack, Michael L ^a   Cummings, Nancie J ^a  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Age estimation; Assessment methods; Length age transformation

Indexed keywords

AGE DETERMINATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 0038486905     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(03)00040-7     Document Type: Article

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