Population time series: Process variability, observation errors, missing values, lags, and hidden states

Ecology

Volumn 85, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 3140-3150

  Clark, James S ^a   Bjørnstad, Ottar N ^b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian analysis; Fossil pollen; Measles; Observation error; Population regulation; State space model; Stochasticity; Time series analysis

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; ERROR ANALYSIS; POPULATION MODELING; STOCHASTICITY; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 9244230097     PISSN: 00129658     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/03-0520     Document Type: Article

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