Modeling Unobserved Sources of Heterogeneity in Animal Abundance Using a Dirichlet Process Prior
Dorazio R, Mukherjee B, Zhang L, Ghosh M, Jelks H, Jordan F. Modeling Unobserved Sources of Heterogeneity in Animal Abundance Using a Dirichlet Process Prior. Biometrics 2008, 64: 635-644. PMID: 17680831, DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00873.x.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSampling locationsSampling protocolNatural populations of animalsPredictions of abundanceAbundance of animalsDistribution of abundanceEndangered fish speciesInduce spatial heterogeneityAnimal abundanceOkaloosa DartersPopulations of animalsUnsampled locationsFish speciesRemoval samplingSpatial heterogeneityAnalysis of countsAbundanceDirichlet processData-adaptive wayModel specificationSources of heterogeneitySpeciesParametric alternativesDartersParametric model