Fitting population dynamics models to count and cull data using sequential importance sampling

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 95, Issue 450, 2000, Pages 363-374

  Trenkel, Verena M ^a   Elston, David A ^b   Buckland, Stephen T ^c  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b BIOMATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian filter; Deer management models; Kernel smoothing; State space models

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542427534     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2000.10474206     Document Type: Article

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