MC(MC)MC: Exploring Monte Carlo integration within MCMC for mark-recapture models with individual covariates

Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Volumn 5, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1305-1315

  Bonner, Simon ^a   Schofield, Matthew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Data augmentation; Mark recapture; Markov chain Monte Carlo; Monte Carlo integration; Monte Carlo within MCMC

Indexed keywords

MICROTUS; MICROTUS PENNSYLVANICUS;

EID: 84916877909     PISSN: None     EISSN: 2041210X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12095     Document Type: Article

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