Taylor's Power Law and Quasilikelihood

  • Park, Heung-Sun (Department of Statistics, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) ;
  • Cho, Ki-Jong (Department of Agricultural Biology, Korea University)
  • Published : 2003.10.31

Abstract

In ecological studies, animal science, or entomology, the variance of count is considered to have the power of the mean relationship with the mean count as Taylor (1961) presented his famous 'Taylor's Power Law'. In this talk, we are going to review the development of TPL and its extension toward pest management sampling scheme. Different estimation methods are compared. Quasilikelihood approach is suggested to incorporate covariate information. Possible extensions will be discussed.

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