Fitting N-mixture models to count data with unmodeled heterogeneity: Bias, diagnostics, and alternative approaches

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  2018

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  Ecological Modelling

• Publication date

  2018-04-24

• Fields of study

  Mathematics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/J.ECOLMODEL.2018.02.007
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