Accommodating unmodeled heterogeneity in double-observer distance sampling surveys

Biometrics

Volumn 62, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 372-378

  Borchers, D L ^a   Laake, J L ^b   Southwell, C ^c   Paxton, C G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^c AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distance sampling; Double observer; Heterogeneity; Mark recapture; Point independence

Indexed keywords

OBJECT DETECTION; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

DETECTABILITY; DISTANCE SAMPLING; DOUBLE OBSERVER; HETEROGENEITY; MARK-RECAPTURE; MARK-RECAPTURE MODELS; POINT INDEPENDENCE; SAMPLING DATA; SAMPLING SURVEY; ZERO CORRELATION;

ANTENNAS;

AERIAL SURVEY; HETEROGENEITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PINNIPED;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; COVARIANCE; NONHUMAN; PROBABILITY; SAMPLING; SEAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ANTARCTICA;

LOBODON CARCINOPHAGUS;

EID: 33745274163     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2005.00493.x     Document Type: Article

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