Humpback whales, rock lobsters and mathematics : exploration of assessment models incorporating stock-structure

This thesis presents four marine resource assessments; three concern the Southern Hemisphere (SH) humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) and one the South African east coast rock lobster Palinurus delagoae. It also sets out the statistical background to the methodology employed in the assessments, including an outline of the Bayesian approach, Bayes' theorem, and the sampling-importance re-sampling (SIR) as well as the Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods.

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics

Year dc:date.issued

2011

Author dc:creator

• Müller, Andrea

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Butterworth, Doug S

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/11427/11342

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/11342