Embedding population dynamics models in inference

Statistical Science

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 44-58

  Buckland, Stephen T ^a   Newman, Ken B ^b   Fernández, Carmen ^c   Thomas, Len ^a   Harwood, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

^c INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Filtering; Hidden process models; Kalman filter; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Matrix population models; Particle filter; Sequential importance sampling; State space models

Indexed keywords

EID: 43949115050     PISSN: 08834237     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/088342306000000673     Document Type: Review

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