Bayesian Modeling of Age-Specific Survival in Bird Nesting Studies under Irregular Visits

Biometrics

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 962-973

  He, Chong Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Age specific survival; Bayesian estimation; Beta priors; Double interval censoring; Gibbs sampling; Latent variable; Nest study; Truncation

Indexed keywords

AGE-SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; BAYESIAN ESTIMATIONS; BETA PRIOR; DOUBLE-INTERVAL CENSORING; GIBBS SAMPLING; INTERVAL CENSORING; LATENT VARIABLE; NEST STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; TRUNCATION;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

AGE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; MODELING; NESTING; SURVIVAL;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIRD; NESTING; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; SURVIVAL;

AVES; COLINUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 0346733305     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0006-341X.2003.00111.x     Document Type: Article

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