Extinction on Islands: Vindicating Waiting Times

Moritz Benado () and Jose´ luis Palacios ()
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Moritz Benado: Universidad Simo´n Bolı´var
Jose´ luis Palacios: Universidad Simo´n Bolı´var

Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 2000, vol. 2, issue 1, 59-67

Abstract: Abstract We present estimators of extinction and migration rates based on the runs of presences and absences of a species on an island, that behave as well as those based on the 2-state (presence and absence) Markov chain, both regarding their computational and memory complexities, and their asymptotic statistical behavior (we prove that they are strongly consistent and asymptotically unbiased). Furthermore, they have the intuitive appeal of their interpretation as waiting times.

Keywords: extinction; migration; run estimators (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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DOI: 10.1023/A:1010007217978

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