Whale Population Dynamics Modeling Papers

• Inference for Deterministic Simulation Models: The Bayesian Melding Approach. David Poole and Adrian E. Raftery. Technical Report no. 346, Department of Statistics, University of Washington. December 1998.

• On a Proposed Stock Assessment Method and Its Application at the International Whaling Commission. By David Poole, Geof H. Givens, and Adrian E. Raftery. Technical Report no. 318, Department of Statistics, University of Washington. April 1997.
  A later version was published as ``A proposed stock assessment method and its application to bowhead whales, Balaena mysticetus,'' in the Fishery Bulletin 97(1999): 144-152.

• Estimating bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, population size and rate of increase from the 1993 census.
  Adrian E. Raftery and Judith E. Zeh. Technical Report no. 303. March 1996.
  A later version was published in the Journal of the American Statistical Association, 93 (June 1998): 451-463.

• Implementing the Current Management Regime for Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling to Establish a Catch Limit for the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas Stock of Bowhead Whales.
  Geof H. Givens, Judith E. Zeh and Adrian Raftery
  November 1995
  Submitted to Report of the International Whaling Commission.

• Benefits of a Bayesian Approach for Synthesizing Multiple Sources of Evidence and Uncertainty Linked by a Deterministic Model.
  Geof H. Givens, Adrian Raftery and Judith E. Zeh
  A later version was published in the Report of the International Whaling Commission 43(1993):495-500.

• Response to Comments by Butterworth and Punt in SC/46/AS2 on the Bayesian Synthesis Approach.
  Geof H. Givens, Adrian Raftery and Judith E. Zeh
  February 1995
  A later version was published in the Report of the International Whaling Commission 45(1995):325-330.

• Assessment of the Bering-Chukchi-Beaufort Seas Stock of Bowhead Whales Using the BALEEN II Model in a Bayesian Synthesis Framework.
  Geof H. Givens, Judith E. Zeh and Adrian Raftery
  May 1994
  A later version was published in the Report of the International Whaling Commission 45(1995):345-364.

• A Reweighting Approach for Sensitivity Analysis within the Bayesian Synthesis Framework for Population Assessment Modeling.
  Geof H. Givens, Adrian Raftery, and Judith E. Zeh
  April 1994
  A later version was published in the Report of the International Whaling Commission 44(1994):377-384.

• A Bayesian Framework and Importance Sampling Methods for Synthesizing Multiple Sources of Evidence and Uncertainty Linked by a Complex Mechanistic Model.
  Geof H. Givens
  Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, 1993.

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