Exploring migration data using interval-censored time-to-event models

Journal of Wildlife Management

Volumn 72, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1211-1219

  Fieberg, John ^a   Delgiudice, Glenn ^a,b  

^a MINNESOTA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

Cure rate; Interval censored; Migration; Odocoileus virginianus; Survival; Survival analysis; Weibull model; White tailed deer

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEER; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; MIGRATION; PARAMETERIZATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL;

MINNESOTA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; ODOCOILEUS VIRGINIANUS;

EID: 48249125017     PISSN: 0022541X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2193/2007-403     Document Type: Article

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