Model-based prediction in ecological surveys including those with incomplete detection

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 257-281

  Melville, Gavin J ^a   Welsh, Alan H ^b  

^a NSW DEPARTMENT OF PRIMARY INDUSTRIES   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aerial surveys; GLMs; Mark recapture; Model based sampling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927593391     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: 1467842X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/anzs.12084     Document Type: Article

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