Langrock, Roland; Borchers, David L.; Skaug, Hans J. - In: Journal of the American Statistical Association 108 (2013) 503, pp. 840-851
We consider Markov-modulated nonhomogeneous Poisson processes for modeling sightings of marine mammals in shipboard or aerial surveys. In such surveys, detection of an animal is possible only when it surfaces, and with some species a substantial proportion of animals is missed because they are...