Continuous Covariates in Mark-Recapture-Recovery Analysis: A Comparison of Methods

Biometrics

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1256-1265

  Bonner, Simon J ^a   Morgan, Byron J T ^b   King, Ruth ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Bayesian inference; Imputation; Individual covariates; Mark recapture recovery; Missing covariates; Time varying continuous covariates; Trinomial model

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; BAYESIAN NETWORKS; INFERENCE ENGINES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

BAYESIAN INFERENCE; COVARIATES; IMPUTATION; INDIVIDUAL COVARIATE; MARK-RECAPTURE-RECOVERY; MISSING COVARIATE; TIME VARYING; TIME-VARYING CONTINUOUS COVARIATE; TRINOMIAL MODELS;

RECOVERY;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BODY MASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COVARIANCE ANALYSIS; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PROBABILITY; SHEEP; SURVIVAL;

HEBRIDES; HIRTA; OUTER HEBRIDES; SAINT KILDA; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALIA; OVIS ARIES;

EID: 78650061466     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01390.x     Document Type: Article

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