Double-observer line transect methods: Levels of independence

Biometrics

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 169-177

  Buckland, Stephen T ^a   Laake, Jeffrey L ^b   Borchers, David L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

Author keywords

Distance sampling; Double observer methods; Full independence; Limiting independence; Line transect sampling; Point independence

Indexed keywords

MAMMALS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

DETECTION PROBABILITIES; DISTANCE SAMPLING; DOUBLE-OBSERVER METHOD; FULL INDEPENDENCE; LIMITING INDEPENDENCE; LINE TRANSECT METHODS; LINE TRANSECT SAMPLING; MARINE MAMMALS; POINT INDEPENDENCE; TRANSECT SAMPLING;

ANTENNAS;

ABUNDANCE; AERIAL SURVEY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; LIMITING FACTOR; LINE TRANSECT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION MODELING; SAMPLE PREPARATION; WHALE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

ANIMALIA; BALAENOPTERA ACUTOROSTRATA; MAMMALIA;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; BIOMETRY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; WHALE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BIOMETRY; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WHALES;

EID: 77949660683     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01239.x     Document Type: Article

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