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Activity Number: 266
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 5, 2013 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
Sponsor: Statistics Without Borders
Abstract - #307824
Title: Statistical Analysis of Whale Shark Population in the Red Sea
Author(s): Kun Xu*+ and Michael Berumen and Marc G. Genton and Yanyuan Ma
Companies: Texas A&M University and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology and KAUST and Texas A&M University
Keywords: Whale Sharks ; Abundance ; Capture-Recapture ; Poisson Regression
Abstract:

The activities of Whale Sharks in Red Sea have environmental impact in the ecology circle. We analyze the data and find that its gender proportion and distribution of total length have unique characteristics. Under the assumption of close population, the Poisson regression models are fitted to the data. We discover that there are heterogeneities on both the individual and temporal effect. The best fit model yields 257.8 regarding the abundance of Whale Sharks with standard deviation 56.5.


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