A Threshold Model for Heron Productivity

Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 128-141

  Besbeas, Panagiotis ^a,b   Morgan, Byron J T ^b  

^a ATHENS UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Conditionally Gaussian; Density dependence; Integrated population modeling; Kalman filter; Non linear models; P splines; State space model

Indexed keywords

BIRD; GAUSSIAN METHOD; KALMAN FILTER; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION MODELING; POPULATION SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; THRESHOLD;

EID: 84858753746     PISSN: 10857117     EISSN: 15372693     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13253-011-0080-8     Document Type: Article

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