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We consider the case of age-specific ring-recovery data obtained only from recovered individual birds and modelled by conditioning a multinomial distribution on the recovery. These models may be appealing when the information about the numbers of marked individuals is missing, but they have previously been analyzed by ignoring a large set of nuisance parameters, the recovery probabilities. We investigate the consequences of this conditioning by relating the age-time specific structure of recovery probabilities to the estimation of survival.
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Mazzetta, C. Age Specificity in Conditional Ring-Recovery Models. JABES 15, 435–451 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13253-010-0029-3
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