Estimating the negative binomial dispersion parameter with highly stratified surveys

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

Volumn 140, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2138-2147

  Cadigan, N G ^a   Tobin, Jared ^b  

^a NORTHWEST ATLANTIC FISHERIES CENTRE   (Canada)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias correction; Bottom trawl surveys; Maximum likelihood bias; Optimal quadratic estimating equation; Pseudo likelihood; Quasi likelihood; Stratified random sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949264257     PISSN: 03783758     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jspi.2010.02.014     Document Type: Article

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