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Appendices

Appendix A: A demonstration of the equivalence of Markov Chain and Mayfield estimators.
Ecological Archives E086-077-A1.

Appendix B: Methods for adjusting survival conditioned transition frequencies and conditioning transition frequencies upon the initial state, final state, and length of an observation.
Ecological Archives E086-077-A2.

Appendix C: Formulae for bias and standard errors of daily survival and overall success.
Ecological Archives E086-077-A3.

Appendix D: Figures showing bias, asymptotic standard error, and standard deviation for at all levels of sample size, monitoring interval, and discovery distribution.
Ecological Archives E086-077-A4.

Supplement

Supplement 1 : MATLAB files used for data generation, parameter estimation, and results analysis.
Ecological Archives E086-077-S1.

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