Parametric models for line transect surveys
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With data from line transeot surveys, the pattern of distances at which animals are detected provides the information for estimating the area which the observer effectively surveys. This paper suggests a parametric structure for the problem wherein this area is characterized by an effective half-width parameter which appears as a scale parameter in the distributions of detection distances. Several suggestions for classes of models are given, different members of a class giving different shapes to the distributions. And some examples are discussed.
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