Inference on environmental population using Horvitz-Thompson estimator

Journal of Environmental Informatics

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 27-34

  Bakar, K S ^a   Hossain, S S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Detection probability; Environmental population; Horvitz Thompson; Poisson distribution; Tiger census

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; FELID; NUMERICAL MODEL; POISSON RATIO; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION STRUCTURE;

EID: 78049472251     PISSN: 17262135     EISSN: 16848799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3808/jei.201000175     Document Type: Article

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