%0 Journal Article %J Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics %D 1999 %T A bivariate Bayes method for improving the estimates of mortality rates with a twofold conditional autoregressive model %A Woodard, R. %A Sun,Dongchu %A Z. He %A Sheriff, S. %X

The Missouri Turkey Hunting Survey (MTHS) is a post-season mail survey conducted by the Missouri Department of Conservation to monitor and aid in the regulation of the turkey hunting season. Questionnaires are distributed after the hunting season to a simple random sample of persons who purchased permits to hunt wild turkey during the spring season. For the 1996 turkey hunting season 95,801 persons purchased hunting permits. From these individuals a simple random sample of 6,999 hunters were selected for the survey and 5,005 of these responded. The MTHS 1 Roger Woodard (E-mail: woodard@stat.missouri.edu) is a Ph.D student and Dongchu Sun (E-mail: dsun@stat.missouri.edu) is Associate Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211. Zhuoqiong He (E-mail: HEZ@mail.conservation.state.mo.us) is a biometrician and Steven L. Sheri (E-mail: SHERIS@mail.conservation.state.mo.us) is a wildlife biometrics superv

%B Journal of Agricultural Biological and Environmental Statistics %G eng