Estimating density dependence, process noise, and observation error

Ecological Monographs

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 323-341

  Dennis, Brian ^a   Ponciano, José Miguel ^a   Lele, Subhash R ^b   Taper, Mark L ^c   Staples, David F ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^c MONTANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Breeding Bird Survey; Environmental noise; Gompertz growth model; Kalman filter; Measurement error; Multimodal likelihood; Observation error; Process noise; Sampling error; State space model; Stationary distribution; Stochastic population model

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; DENSITY DEPENDENCE; ERROR ANALYSIS; KALMAN FILTER; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION MODELING; SAMPLING;

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EID: 33747072045     PISSN: 00129615     EISSN: 00129615     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/0012-9615(2006)76[323:EDDPNA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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