Statistics
The statistics division has research interests in 3 main areas: wildlife population assessment, ecological and environmental modelling, and statistical inference.
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Using short-term measures of behaviour to estimate long-term fitness of southern elephant seals.
(2014-01-27) - Journal articleEnvironmental changes (a type of disturbance) are altering the habitat of southern elephant seals Mirounga leonina, an apex marine predator in the Southern Ocean. As a result, individuals may shift their behaviour, spending ... -
Multi-part balanced incomplete-block designs
(2019-01-23) - Journal articleWe consider designs for cancer trials which allow each medical centre to treat only a limited number of cancer types with only a limited number of drugs. We specify desirable properties of these designs, and prove some ... -
Density estimation of sound-producing terrestrial animals using single automatic acoustic recorders and distance sampling
(2018-12-01) - Journal articleObtaining accurate information on the distribution, density, and abundance of animals is an important first step toward their conservation. Methodological approaches using automatic acoustic recorders for species that ... -
Classification of animal dive tracks via automatic landmarking, principal components analysis and clustering
(2011-08-19) - Journal articleThe behaviour of animals and their interactions with the environment can be inferred by tracking their movement. For this reason, biologgers are an important source of ecological data, but analysing the shape of the tracks ... -
Loggerhead turtle Caretta caretta density and abundance in Chesapeake Bay and the temperate ocean waters of the southern portion of the Mid-Atlantic Bight
(2018-12-13) - Journal articleWe conducted aerial surveys of sea turtles in 2011 and 2012, incorporating corrections for perception and availability bias in Chesapeake Bay and near-shore continental shelf waters of the Mid-Atlantic Bight off the US ...
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