Title | Statistics in Ornithology [electronic resource] / edited by Byron J. T. Morgan, Philip M. North |
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Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York, 1985 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5138-5 |
Descript | 418 p. online resource |
The General Context of Statistics in Ornithology -- The General Context of Statistics in Ornithology -- Section A General: Colour, Feeding, Movement and Migration -- Winter Feeding Assemblies, Wing Lengths and Weights of British Dunncocks -- A Bivariate Discrete Model of Changing Colour in Blackbirds -- Migration Counts and Local Weather at British Bird Observatories โ An Examination By Linear Discriminant Analysis -- Statistical Problems in the Study of Seed-Eating Birds -- Models to Describe Razorbill Movements -- Accounting for Visible Migration -- Section B Analysis of Census Data -- Multivariate Analysis of Atlas Data -- A Test for Seasonal Occurrence -- An Index of Population Change With Application to the Common Bird Census -- Area-Species Incidence Recording -- Analyses of Nest Spacings -- An Assessment of Species-Area Relationships Using Ornithological Data -- Apparent Systematic Effects on Species-Area Curves Under Isolation and Evolution -- Section C Survival -- Are Hunting Losses of Young Black Ducks (Anas Rubripes) Too High? -- The Estimation of Survival in Bird Populations By Recaptures or Sightings of Marked Individuals -- Maximum Likelihood Methods for Investigating Reporting Rates of Rings on Hunter-Shot Birds -- Examples of the Use of Glim to Analyse Capture-Recapture Studies -- Age-Dependent Mortality Rates of Some Common British Birds -- Estimation and Comparison of Functions of Daily Nest Survival Probabilities Using the Mayfield Method -- Prior Knowledge and Ornithology -- Inherent Difficulties in Estimating Age-Specific Bird Survival Rates from Ring Recoveries -- The Effect of Age on Survival in the Canada Goose (Branta Canadensis) in Nottinghamshire -- Estimation of Age-Specific Survival in Hen Harriers (Circus C. Cyaneus) in Orkney -- Approximate Unbiased Estimation in the Multi-Sample Single Recapture Census -- Approximately Unbiased Variance Estimation for the Jolly-Seber Mark-Recapture Model : Population Size -- References -- Author Index -- Bird index (english names) -- Bird Index (scientific names)