Frequentist analysis of hierarchical models for population dynamics and demographic data

Journal of Ornithology

Volumn 152, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2012, Pages 393-408

  de Valpine, Perry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bridge sampling; Data cloning; Integrated population model; Monte Carlo expectation maximization; Monte Carlo kernel likelihood; Normalizing constant; Particle filter; State space model; Vanellus vanellus

Indexed keywords

AKAIKE INFORMATION CRITERION; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GAUSSIAN METHOD; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; KALMAN FILTER; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NONLINEARITY; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; WADER;

VANELLUS VANELLUS;

EID: 84859266542     PISSN: 21937192     EISSN: 21937206     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10336-010-0642-5     Document Type: Review

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