A cautionary note on the discrete uniform prior for the binomial N

Ecology

Volumn 94, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2173-2179

  Link, William A ^a  

^a PATUXENT WILDLIFE RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Abundance; Bayesian analysis; Binomial; Data augmentation; N estimation; Priors

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; DATA ACQUISITION; PARAMETERIZATION; POPULATION ESTIMATION; POPULATION SIZE; PROBABILITY;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

EID: 84886558171     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/13-0176.1     Document Type: Article

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