Efficiency of presence-absence sampling used to estimate the mean abundance of fish eggs

Fisheries Science

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 805-816

  Yamada, Sakutaro ^a   Zenitani, Hiromu ^b  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Counting sampling; Estimation of fish egg abundance; Fisher information; Mean square error; Presence absence sampling; Relative efficiency; Sampling cost

Indexed keywords

EID: 24944451450     PISSN: 09199268     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1444-2906.2005.01031.x     Document Type: Article

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