Maximum likelihood and Bayesian approaches to stock assessment when data are questionable

Fisheries Research

Volumn 80, Issue 2-3, 2006, Pages 169-181

  Booth, Anthony J ^a   Quinn II, Terrance J ^b  

^a RHODES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

Author keywords

Age structured production model; Bayesian statistics; Lophius vomerinus; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Maximum likelihood estimation; Monkfish

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; FISH; FISHERY STATISTICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; STOCK ASSESSMENT;

LOPHIUS VOMERINUS;

EID: 33751118495     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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