Abundance Estimation from Multiple Photo Surveys: Confidence Distributions and Reduced Likelihoods for Bowhead Whales off Alaska

Biometrics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 974-983

  Schweder, Tore ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

Abundance estimation; Bootstrap; Bowhead whales; Confidence distribution; Mark recapture; Reduced likelihood; Study protocol

Indexed keywords

POPULATION DISTRIBUTION;

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; BOOTSTRAP; BOWHEAD WHALES; CONFIDENCE DISTRIBUTION; MARK-RECAPTURE; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATE; NUISANCE PARAMETER; PARAMETRIC BOOTSTRAP; REDUCED LIKELIHOOD; STUDY PROTOCOL;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; PHOTOGRAPH; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; WHALE;

ARTICLE; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; NONHUMAN; POPULATION MODEL; POPULATION SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; WHALE;

ALASKA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

BALAENA MYSTICETUS; BALAENIDAE; CETACEA;

EID: 0042957937     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2003.00112.x     Document Type: Article

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