Adjusting age and stage distributions for misclassification errors

Ecology

Volumn 88, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1977-1983

  Conn, Paul B ^a   Diefenbach, Duane R ^b  

^a Colorado State University ^*  (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age structure; Age at harvest; Aging error; Matrix population model; Misclassification error; Stage structure; Ursus americanus

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; CLASSIFICATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION MODELING;

NORTH AMERICA; PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

URSUS AMERICANUS;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BEAR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMALS; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CAUSALITY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PREVALENCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URSIDAE;

EID: 35148821961     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/07-0369.1     Document Type: Article

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