Modeling individual specific fish length from capture-recapture data using the von bertalanffy growth curve

Biometrics

Volumn 69, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1012-1021

  Schofield, Matthew R ^a   Barker, Richard J ^b   Taylor, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c Manawatu Mail Centre   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Capture recapture; Hierarchical modeling; MCMC; Model checking; Von Bertalanffy

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; CURVE FITTING;

BAYESIAN METHODS; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE; CROSS VALIDATION; FISH LENGTH; HIERARCHICAL MODEL; MCMC; MODELS CHECKING; RAINBOW TROUTS (ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS); VON BERTALANFFY; VON BERTALANFFY GROWTH CURVES;

MODEL CHECKING;

DATA SET; FISH; GROWTH RATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; SALMONID; VON BERTALANFFY EQUATION;

ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS;

ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BODY SIZE; CAPTURE-RECAPTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HEALTH SURVEY; HIERARCHICAL MODELING; MCMC; METHODOLOGY; MODEL CHECKING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RAINBOW TROUT; SAMPLE SIZE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; VON BERTALANFFY;

CAPTURE-RECAPTURE; HIERARCHICAL MODELING; MCMC; MODEL CHECKING; VON BERTALANFFY;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BODY SIZE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; MODELS, STATISTICAL; ONCORHYNCHUS MYKISS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84890310993     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/biom.12069     Document Type: Article

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