Double-observer line transect methods : levels of independence

• Published in: Biometrics
• Main Authors: Buckland, Stephen Terrence, Laake, Jeffrey L., Borchers, David Louis
• Other Authors: University of St Andrews.School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews.Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotland, University of St Andrews.Scottish Oceans Institute, University of St Andrews.St Andrews Sustainability Institute, University of St Andrews.Centre for Research into Ecological & Environmental Modelling
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: Distance sampling; Double-observer methods; Full independence; Limiting independence; Line transect sampling; Point independence; QA Mathematics; SDG 14 - Life Below Water; QA; Petersen; minke whale
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10023/1928; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1541-0420.2009.01239.x; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77949660683&partnerID=8YFLogxK

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 two-sample...