Double‐Observer Line Transect Methods: Levels of Independence

• Published in: Biometrics
• Main Authors: Buckland, Stephen T., Laake, Jeffrey L., Borchers, David L.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford University Press (OUP) 2010
• Subjects: Applied Mathematics; General Agricultural and Biological Sciences; General Immunology and Microbiology; General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; General Medicine; Statistics and Probability; Petersen; minke whale
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01239.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1541-0420.2009.01239.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01239.x

Summary Double‐observer line transect methods are becoming increasingly widespread, especially for the estimation of marine mammal abundance from aerial and shipboard surveys when detection of animals on the line is uncertain. The resulting data supplement conventional distance sampling data with tw...