Maximum likelihood estimation of mark-recapture-recovery models in the presence of continuous covariates

Annals of Applied Statistics

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1709-1732

  Langrock, Roland ^a   King, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arnason schwarz model; Hidden markov model; Markov chain; Missing values; Soay sheep; State space model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885046625     PISSN: 19326157     EISSN: 19417330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/13-AOAS644     Document Type: Article

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