Clarifying the effect of toe clipping on frogs with Bayesian statistics

Journal of Applied Ecology

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 780-786

  Mccarthy, Michael A ^a,b   Parris, Kirsten M ^b  

^a Australian Research Centre for Urban Ecology   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian statistics; Estimation; Mark recapture; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Null hypothesis testing; Power

Indexed keywords

AMPHIBIAN; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FROG; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; ANURA; REPTILIA;

EID: 3843060088     PISSN: 00218901     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0021-8901.2004.00919.x     Document Type: Article

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