3 papers
stat.ME2026
Capture history analysis for spatial wildlife surveys with detection times
Benjamin R. Baer, David L. Borchers, Greg Distiller
Many wildlife surveys of species with individually identifiable animals are based on the analysis of the capture histories of individual animals. However, not many of these take ac…
stat.ME2025
On Causal Inference for the Survivor Function
Benjamin R. Baer, Ashkan Ertefaie, Robert L. Strawderman
In this expository paper, we consider the problem of causal inference and efficient estimation for the counterfactual survivor function. This problem has previously been considered…
stat.ME2025
A foundation for the distance sampling methodology
Benjamin R. Baer, Len Thomas, Stephen T. Buckland
The population size ("abundance") of wildlife species has central interest in ecological research and management. Distance sampling is a dominant approach to the estimation of wild…