title: An adaptive feedback methodology for determining information content in stable population studies.
abstract: We develop statistical and mathematical based methodologies for determining (as the experiment progresses) the amount of information required to complete the estimation of stable population parameters with pre-specified levels of confidence. We do this in the context of life table models and data for growth/death for three species of Daphniids as investigated by J. Stark and J. Banks [17]. The ideas developed here also have wide application in the health and social sciences where experimental data are often expensive as well as difficult to obtain.
authors: Center for Research in Scientific Computation, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695-8212, United States. email: htbanks@eos.ncsu.edu.
authors: H T
authors: HT
authors: Banks
authors: John E
authors: JE
authors: Banks
authors: R A
authors: RA
authors: Everett
authors: John D
authors: JD
authors: Stark
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003621:Daphnia / Q000502:physiology*; D017753:Ecosystem; D015993:Life Tables; D008954:Models, Biological; D011157:Population Dynamics