Effects of process and observation errors on effective sample size of fishery and survey age and length composition using variance ratio and likelihood methods

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1548-1557

  Hulson, Peter John F ^a   Hanselman, Dana H ^b   Quinn, Terrance J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Dirichlet likelihood; effective sample size; multinomial distribution; stock assessment

Indexed keywords

AGE STRUCTURE; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; FUTURE PROSPECT; LENGTH-FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; SAMPLING; STOCK ASSESSMENT; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; VARIANCE ANALYSIS;

EID: 79959509869     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsr102     Document Type: Review

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