Estimation in independent observer line transect surveys for clustered populations

Biometrics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 754-759

  Chen, Song Xi ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Animal abundance; Conditional likelihood; Kernel smoothing; School size

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; ANIMAL ABUNDANCE; CLUSTER SIZES; CONDITIONAL LIKELIHOOD; COVARIATES; DETECTION FUNCTIONS; KERNEL DENSITY ESTIMATION; KERNEL SMOOTHING; NONPARAMETRIC ESTIMATORS; SCHOOL SIZE;

MAMMALS;

ABUNDANCE; BIOMETRY; ESTIMATION METHOD; TRANSECT;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

EID: 0345713183     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.1999.00754.x     Document Type: Article

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