Hierarchical modeling of abundance in closed population capture-recapture models under heterogeneity

Environmental and Ecological Statistics

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 435-451

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

^a Department of Statistics Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Bayesian; Capture recapture; Complete data likelihood; Data augmentation; Hierarchical; MCMC; Reversible jump; Superpopulation; Trans dimensional

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; HETEROGENEITY; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; MARK-RECAPTURE METHOD; MARKOV CHAIN; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; POPULATION SIZE;

URSUS ARCTOS;

EID: 84907595933     PISSN: 13528505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-013-0262-3     Document Type: Article

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