Spatial and Temporal Models of Migrating Juvenile Salmon with Applications

by Richard W. Zabel
University of Washington

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

1.1. Anadromous salmonid biology

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Models of individual movements

2.3. Group movements

2.4. Waiting time, Poisson process

3.1. Introduction

3.2. Forms of data

3.3. Forms of the models

3.4. Parameter estimation

3.5. Confidence intervals

3.6. Goodness-of-fit

3.7. Model discrimination, model selection, generalized likelihood ratio test

3.8. Statistical simulations

3.9. Types of data

4.1. Introduction

4.2. Development of basic model

4.3. Statistical methods

4.4. Simulations

4.5. Application to discrete time data

4.6. Application to continuous data

4.7. Appendices

Tables

5.1. Introduction

5.2. Time dependent mortality

5.3. Delay in migration

5.4. Predicting model parameters and travel times

6.1. Introduction

6.2. Development of model and statistical technique

6.3. Applications with length covariate

6.4. Multiple covariate model

7.1. Introduction and motivation

7.2. Models

7.3. Statistical analysis

7.4. Application to radio-tracking data

8.1. Introduction

8.2. The model

8.3. Example - light gradient

8.4. Application to data

8.5. Discussion

9.1. Overview

9.2. Summary by chapter

9.3. Recommendations for salmon population management

Appendix 1. PIT tag release groups

Appendix 2. Cohort covariates

Appendix 3. Computer code

A3.1. Introduction

A3.2. Analysis of continuous travel time data

A3.3. inverse Gaussian random variate