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A test of Jackson's method for separating death and emigration with mark‐recapture data
Author(s) -
Manly B. F. J.
Publication year - 1985
Publication title -
population ecology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.819
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1438-390X
pISSN - 1438-3896
DOI - 10.1007/bf02515483
Subject(s) - emigration , biology , variance (accounting) , mark and recapture , statistics , econometrics , demography , mathematics , economics , geography , archaeology , sociology , population , accounting
Summary Jackson 's method for separating death and emigration has been studied by computer simulation. In general this method seems to be quite effective in producing nearly unbiased survival estimates. However, the correction can cause a substantial increase in the variance of these estimates.