A note on simplifying likelihoods for site occupancy models

Biometrics

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 618-621

  Morgan, Byron J T ^a   Revell, David J ^a   Freeman, Stephen N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^b THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Heterogeneous detection models; Orthogonal parameter estimators; Profile log likelihoods; Timed species counts; Zero inflation; Zero modified distributions

Indexed keywords

BIOMETRICS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DETECTION MODELS; HETEROGENEOUS DETECTION MODEL; LOG LIKELIHOOD; ORTHOGONAL PARAMETER ESTIMATOR; PARAMETERS ESTIMATORS; PROFILE LOG LIKELIHOOD; SITE-OCCUPANCY; TIMED SPECIES COUNT; ZERO INFLATION; ZERO-MODIFIED DISTRIBUTION;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD;

DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; POPULATION ABUNDANCE; POPULATION SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34547696976     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2006.00724.x     Document Type: Article

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