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Effects of Model Formulation on Estimates of Health in Individual Right Whales (Eubalaena glacialis).

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Schick, RS; Kraus, SD; Rolland, RM; Knowlton, AR; Hamilton, PK; Pettis, HM; Thomas, L; Harwood, J; Clark, JS
January 2016

Right whales are vulnerable to many sources of anthropogenic disturbance including ship strikes, entanglement with fishing gear, and anthropogenic noise. The effect of these factors on individual health is unclear. A statistical model using photographic evidence of health was recently built to infer the true or hidden health of individual right whales. However, two important prior assumptions about the role of missing data and unexplained variance on the estimates were not previously assessed. Here we tested these factors by varying prior assumptions and model formulation. We found sensitivity to each assumption and used the output to make guidelines on future model formulation.

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Publication Date

January 2016

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875

Start / End Page

977 / 985

Related Subject Headings

  • Whales
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Health
  • General & Internal Medicine
  • Animals
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 31 Biological sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences
 

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Schick, R. S., Kraus, S. D., Rolland, R. M., Knowlton, A. R., Hamilton, P. K., Pettis, H. M., … Clark, J. S. (2016). Effects of Model Formulation on Estimates of Health in Individual Right Whales (Eubalaena glacialis). (Vol. 875, pp. 977–985). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_121
Schick, Robert S., Scott D. Kraus, Rosalind M. Rolland, Amy R. Knowlton, Philip K. Hamilton, Heather M. Pettis, Len Thomas, John Harwood, and James S. Clark. “Effects of Model Formulation on Estimates of Health in Individual Right Whales (Eubalaena glacialis).,” 875:977–85, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_121.
Schick RS, Kraus SD, Rolland RM, Knowlton AR, Hamilton PK, Pettis HM, et al. Effects of Model Formulation on Estimates of Health in Individual Right Whales (Eubalaena glacialis). In 2016. p. 977–85.
Schick, Robert S., et al. Effects of Model Formulation on Estimates of Health in Individual Right Whales (Eubalaena glacialis). Vol. 875, 2016, pp. 977–85. Epmc, doi:10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_121.
Schick RS, Kraus SD, Rolland RM, Knowlton AR, Hamilton PK, Pettis HM, Thomas L, Harwood J, Clark JS. Effects of Model Formulation on Estimates of Health in Individual Right Whales (Eubalaena glacialis). 2016. p. 977–985.

DOI

Publication Date

January 2016

Volume

875

Start / End Page

977 / 985

Related Subject Headings

  • Whales
  • Models, Theoretical
  • Health
  • General & Internal Medicine
  • Animals
  • 32 Biomedical and clinical sciences
  • 31 Biological sciences
  • 11 Medical and Health Sciences