Modeling age and nest-specific survival using a hierarchical bayesian approach

Biometrics

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1052-1062

  Cao, Jing ^a   He, Chong Z ^b   Suedkamp Wells, Kimberly M ^c   Millspaugh, Joshua J ^b   Ryan, Mark R ^b  

^a SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^c ENVIRON   (United States)

Author keywords

Age specific survival probability; Bayesian hierarchical model; Intrinsic autoregressive prior; Nest survival; Nest specific covariate

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; HAZARDS; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEMS;

AGE-SPECIFIC SURVIVAL PROBABILITY; AUTO-REGRESSIVE; BAYESIAN HIERARCHICAL MODELLING; COVARIATES; HIERARCHICAL BAYESIAN; INTRINSIC AUTOREGRESSIVE PRIOR; NEST SURVIVAL; NEST-SPECIFIC COVARIATE; SURVIVAL PROBABILITIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

BIRDS;

AGE CLASS; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BIRD; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; GRASS; LOGIT ANALYSIS; NESTLING; SURVIVAL;

AGE DETERMINATION; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; COVARIANCE; INCUBATION TIME; MULTINOMIAL SEMIPARAMETRIC LOGIT MODEL; NESTING; PROBABILITY; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; SURVIVAL RATE;

AVES; SPIZA;

EID: 70450233460     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01204.x     Document Type: Article

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