Bayesian inference on age-specific survival for censored and truncated data

Journal of Animal Ecology

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 139-149

  Colchero, Fernando ^a,b   Clark, James S ^b,c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR DEMOGRAPHIC RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Duke University   (United States)

Author keywords

Age specific survival; Bayesian inference; Capture recapture recovery data; Maximum likelihood

Indexed keywords

AGE CLASS; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA SET; DEMOGRAPHY; ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION METHOD; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; NUMERICAL MODEL; SHEEP; SURVIVAL;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EVALUATION; FEMALE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHEEP; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; BIOMETRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEMALE; HEBRIDES; MALE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SHEEP; SURVIVAL RATE;

OVIS ARIES; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 83155175296     PISSN: 00218790     EISSN: 13652656     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2011.01898.x     Document Type: Article

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