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Sampling Highly Aggregated Populations with Application to California Sardine Managenent

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The management of Pacific sardine off the California coast is used to motivate a number of problems associated with egg or larvae sampling. The use of the negative binomial distribution as a model for the spatial distribution of eggs is discussed and inference for the negative binomial by classical and Bayesian methods is introduced, A particular problem, that of presence-absence sampling when not all sampling sites are habitats, is analyzed in detail. The paper closes with a number of open questions, ranging from improvements in the modeling, to prescriptive problems associated with survey design.

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  1. Departments of Agricultural Economics, Entomology and Mathematics, University of California, Davis, California, 95616, USA

    Marc Mangel

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  1. Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721, USA

    Thomas L. Vincent

  2. Department of Fisheries and Wildlife, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, 55108, USA

    Yosef Cohen

  3. Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164-2920, USA

    Walter J. Grantham

  4. Division of Fisheries Research, CSIRO Marine Laboratories, GPO Box 1538, Hobart, Tasmania, Australia

    Geoffrey P. Kirkwood

  5. Department of Mathematics, University of Queensland, St. Lucia, Queensland, 4067, Australia

    Jan M. Skowronski

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Mangel, M. (1987). Sampling Highly Aggregated Populations with Application to California Sardine Managenent. In: Vincent, T.L., Cohen, Y., Grantham, W.J., Kirkwood, G.P., Skowronski, J.M. (eds) Modeling and Management of Resources under Uncertainty. Lecture Notes in Biomathematics, vol 72. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-93365-3_19

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