- Title
- Estimation in Ricker's two-release method: a Bayesian approach
- Creator
- Lee, Shen-Ming; Chen, Cathy W. S.; Gerlach, Richard H.; Huang, Li-Hui
- Relation
- Australian & New Zealand Journal of Statistics Vol. 48, Issue 2, p. 157-169
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-842X.2006.00432.x
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2006
- Description
- The Ricker’s two-release method is a simplified version of the Jolly-Seber method, from Seber’s Estimation of Animal Abundance (1982), used to estimate survival rate and abundance in animal populations. This method assumes there is only a single recapture sample and no immigration, emigration or recruitment. In this paper, we propose a Bayesian analysis for this method to estimate the survival rate and the capture probability, employing Markov chain Monte Carlo methods and a latent variable analysis. The performance of the proposed method is illustrated with a simulation study as well as a real data set. The results show that the proposed method provides favourable inference for the survival rate when compared with the modified maximum likelihood method.
- Subject
- Gibbs sampling; Markov chain Monte Carlo method; missing value; open population; Ricker’s two-release method; survival rate
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/927699
- Identifier
- uon:10219
- Identifier
- ISSN:1369-1473
- Language
- eng
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