marked: An R package for maximum likelihood and Markov Chain Monte Carlo analysis of capture-recapture data

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 885-890

  Laake, Jeff L ^a   Johnson, Devin S ^a   Conn, Paul B ^a  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Automatic Differentiation Model Builder; Capture recapture; Cormack Jolly Seber; Jolly Seber; Mark recapture; Markov Chain Monte Carlo; Population Analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84883400992     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12065     Document Type: Article

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