On the use of correlated beta random variables with animal population modelling

Ecological Modelling

Volumn 215, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 293-300

  Dias, Carlos Tadeu dos Santos ^a   Samaranayaka, Ari ^b   Manly, Bryan ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c WESTERN ECOSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Correlated non normal distributions; Demographic parameters; Population dynamics; Population simulation

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM VARIABLES; STOCHASTIC MODELS;

CORRELATED NON-NORMAL DISTRIBUTIONS; DEMOGRAPHIC PARAMETERS; POPULATION SIMULATION;

POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMAL; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION MODELING; REPRODUCTION; STOCHASTICITY; SURVIVAL;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 46449139856     PISSN: 03043800     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2008.03.020     Document Type: Article

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