A robust design mark-resight abundance estimator allowing heterogeneity in resighting probabilities

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 231-248

  McClintock, Brett T ^a   White, Gary C ^a   Burnham, Kenneth P ^b,c  

^a Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c and Department of Statistics   (United States)

Author keywords

Beta binomial distribution; Detection probability; Individual heterogeneity; Maximum likelihood; Population size estimation; Program NOREMARK; Sighting surveys

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE ESTIMATION; HETEROGENEITY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 33748655200     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/108571106X129171     Document Type: Article

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