Citation

Chen SX, Woolcock JL. Biometrics 1999; 55(3): 799-804.

Affiliation

Department of Statistical Science, La Trobe University, VIC, Australia. Song.Chen@latrobe.edu.au

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, Biometric Society, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11315009

Abstract

A theoretical framework for using bus-route surveys to estimate recreational fishing effort has been established by taking into account the arrival and departure distributions of the fishing parties. Properties of a fishing effort estimator proposed by Robson and Jones (1989) are investigated. It is found that the estimator is not automatically unbiased; rather, a condition on the survey design has to be satisfied in order to be unbiased. The condition is simple and can be easily implemented.

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