Uncertainty in population growth rates: Determining confidence intervals from point estimates of parameters

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2010, Pages

  Devenish Nelson, Eleanor S ^a   Harris, Stephen ^b   Soulsbury, Carl D ^b   Richards, Shane A ^a   Stephens, Philip A ^a  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEMOGRAPHY; ECOLOGY; FOX; GROWTH RATE; POPULATION GROWTH; POPULATION RESEARCH; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL MODEL; VULPES VULPES; ANIMAL; FEMALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; UNCERTAINTY;

MAMMALIA; VULPES; VULPES VULPES;

ANIMALS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOXES; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; POPULATION GROWTH; REPRODUCTION; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 78149419369     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013628     Document Type: Article

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