Identifying and diagnosing population declines: A Bayesian assessment of lapwings in the UK

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 609-632

  King, Ruth ^a   Brooks, Stephen P ^b   Mazzetta, Chiara ^c   Freeman, Stephen N ^d   Morgan, Byron J T ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^d THE NUNNERY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Markov chain Monte Carlo sampling; Model choice; Population status; Random effects; Ring recovery; State space models; Survey data; Vanellus vanellus

Indexed keywords

EID: 52049121517     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: 14679876     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9876.2008.00633.x     Document Type: Article

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