A Likelihood Approach to Estimating Animal Density from Binary Acoustic Transects

Biometrics

Volumn 67, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 681-690

  Horrocks, Julie ^a   Hamilton, David C ^b   Whitehead, Hal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Abundance; Animal density; Binary time series; Maximum likelihood estimation; Passive acoustic surveys; Second order Markov approximation; Spatial Poisson process

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

ABUNDANCE; ACOUSTIC SURVEY; ANIMAL DENSITY; BINARY TIME SERIES; MARKOV APPROXIMATION; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC SURVEY; PASSIVE ACOUSTICS; SECOND ORDERS; SECOND-ORDER MARKOV APPROXIMATION; SPATIAL POISSON PROCESS;

MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION;

ABUNDANCE; BIOACOUSTICS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DETECTION METHOD; ESTIMATION METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; POISSON RATIO; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES; TRANSECT; WHALE;

ANIMALIA; MEGAPTERA;

EID: 80052789052     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2010.01496.x     Document Type: Article

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