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Steps to parameter redundancy in age-dependent recovery models

Catchpole, Edward A., Freeman, Stephen N., Morgan, Byron J. T. (1996) Steps to parameter redundancy in age-dependent recovery models. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series B (Statistical Methodology), 58 (4). pp. 763-774. ISSN 1369-7412. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:18867)

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Abstract

Recovery data result when marked animals are found dead and their marks are reported. Large banks of such data exist for many species of birds ringed as young. It is often important to include in stochastic models for such data a degree of age variation in both the annual survival and the reporting probabilities. We show how to determine by inspection whether such models are parameter redundant, which identifies the cause of the parameter redundancy when it occurs. We also show how the results extend to a useful example of a model incorporating both time- and age-dependent probabilities.

Item Type: Article
Uncontrolled keywords: age variation; capture-recapture; ornithology; parameter redundancy; recovery models; variable reporting rate
Subjects: Q Science > QA Mathematics (inc Computing science) > QA276 Mathematical statistics
H Social Sciences > HA Statistics
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Computing, Engineering and Mathematical Sciences > School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science
Depositing User: M.A. Ziai
Date Deposited: 15 May 2009 11:29 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 09:57 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/18867 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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Catchpole, Edward A..

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Morgan, Byron J. T..

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