Estimating abundance using mark-resight when sampling is with replacement or the number of marked individuals is unknown

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 237-246

  McClintock, Brett T ^a   White, Gary C ^a   Antolin, Michael F ^a   Tripp, Daniel W ^a  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

Bowden's estimator; Individual heterogeneity; Mark recapture; Population size; Prairie dog; Program MARK; Program NOREMARK

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION THEORY; SAMPLING;

BOWDEN ESTIMATOR; INDIVIDUAL HETEROGENEITY; MARK-RECAPTURE; MIXED EFFECTS MODELS; MONITORING PROGRAMMES; POPULATION MONITORING; POPULATION SIZES; PRAIRIE DOG; PROGRAM MARK; PROGRAM NOREMARK;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; SIMULATION; SOFTWARE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DOG; MARK RECAPTURE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION SIZE; PRAIRIE; SAMPLING; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; THEORETICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

CYNOMYS; CYNOMYS LUDOVICIANUS;

EID: 62749103869     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2008.01047.x     Document Type: Article

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