Estimating stray dog populations with the regression method versus Beck's method: A comparison

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 485-498

  Fei, Shih Yuan ^a   Chiang, Jeng Tung ^a   Fei, Chang Young ^b   Chou, Chung Hsi ^b   Tung, Meng Chih ^c,d  

^a NATIONAL CHENGCHI UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^c NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d Animal Disease Control Center of Changhua County   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Animal welfare; Capture recapture; Heterogeneous capture probabilities; Photographic survey; Population size; Stray dogs

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL WELFARE; CANID; ESTIMATION METHOD; GUIDELINE; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION SIZE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT; WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION;

ANIMALIA; CANIS FAMILIARIS;

EID: 84870373362     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-012-0197-0     Document Type: Article

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