Spatial occupancy models for large data sets

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 801-808

  Johnson, Devin S ^a   Conn, Paul B ^a   Hooten, Mevin B ^b,c   Ray, Justina C ^d   Pond, Bruce A ^e  

^a NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^b and Department of Statistics   (United States)

^c Department of Ecosystem Science and Sustainability   (United States)

^d Wildlife Conservation Society Canada   (Canada)

^e ONTARIO MINISTRY OF NATURAL RESOURCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Bias; Caribou; Intrinsic conditionally autoregressive; Occupancy model; Probit regression; Rangifer tarandus; Reduced rank; Spatial regression

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; AUTOCORRELATION; DATA SET; DEER; MODELING; PROBABILITY; SOFTWARE; SPECIES OCCURRENCE;

CANADA; ONTARIO [CANADA];

RANGIFER TARANDUS;

EID: 84876768817     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/12-0564.1     Document Type: Article

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