A kernel estimate for the density of a biological population by using line transect sampling

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 135-150

  Chen, Song Xi ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aerial survey; Confidence intervals; Density estimate; Fourier series estimate; Kernel smoothing; Line transect sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 0039566947     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/2986150     Document Type: Article

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