Fitting N-mixture models to count data with unmodeled heterogeneity: Bias, diagnostics, and alternative approaches
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2018.02.007
Abstract: Monitoring animal populations is central to wildlife and fisheries management, and the use of N-mixture models toward these efforts has markedly increased in recent years. Nevertheless, relatively little work has evaluated estimator performance when basic… read more here.
Keywords: bias; heterogeneity; fitting mixture; count data ... See more keywords