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  title info:
    title: Estimating Animal Abundance
    sub title: Closed Populations
  name:
    name part: Borchers, D. L.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Buckland, S. T.
  name:
    name part: Zucchini, W.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2002
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xiii, 314 pages)
  abstract: This is the first book to provide an accessible, comprehensive introduction to wildlife population assessment methods. It uses a new approach that makes the full range of methods accessible in a way that has not previously been possible. Traditionally, newcomers to the field have had to face the daunting prospect of grasping new concepts for almost every one of the many methods. In contrast, this book uses a single conceptual (and statistical) framework for all the methods. This makes understanding the apparently different methods easier because each can be seen to be a special case of the general framework. The approach provides a natural bridge between simple methods and recently developed methods. It also links closed population methods quite naturally with open population methods. The book is accompanied by free software on the web, in the form of an R library, allowing readers to get some "hands-on" experience with the methods and how they perform in different contexts - without the considerable effort and expense required to do this in the real world. It also provides a tool for teaching the methods, including a means for teachers to generate examples and exercises customised to the needs of their students. As the first truly up-to-date and introductory text in the field, this book should become a standard reference for students and professionals in the fields of statistics, biology and ecology.
  table of contents: Part I. Introduction: Using Likelihood for Estimation -- Part II. Simple Methods: Building Blocks; Plot Sampling; Removal, Catch-Effort, and Change-in-Ratio; Simple Mark-Recapture; Distance Sampling; Nearest Neighbour and Point-to-Nearest-Object -- Part III. Advanced Methods: Further Building Blocks; Spatial/Temporal Models with Certain Detection; Dealing with Heterogeneity; Integrated Models; Dynamic and Open Population Models -- Part IV. Overview: Which Method? Notation and Glossary; Statistical Formulation for Observation Models; The Asymptotic Variance of MLEs; State Models for Mark-Recapture and Removal Methods -- References -- Index.
  note: by D.L. Borchers, S.T. Buckland, W. Zucchini.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Genetics
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical statistics
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  subject:
    topic: Ecology
  subject:
    topic: Genetics
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Life sciences
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical statistics
  subject:
    topic: Statistics
  classification: QH540-549.5
  classification: 577
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Statistics for biology and health
  identifier: 9781447137085 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1447137086 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781849968850
  identifier: 1849968853
  identifier: 1447137086
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    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 130128
    record change date: 20260422210016.0
    record identifier: in00003566189
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng