A Unifying Model for Capture–Recapture and Distance Sampling Surveys of Wildlife Populations

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 110, Issue 509, 2015, Pages 195-204

  Borchers, D L ^a   Stevenson, B C ^a   Kidney, D ^a   Thomas, L ^a   Marques, T A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Abundance estimation; Acoustic survey; Closed population; Measurement error; Visual survey

Indexed keywords

EID: 84928232331     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: 1537274X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2014.893884     Document Type: Article

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