, particularly to the so-called shoulder condition, which ensures that an animal is almost certain to be detected if it is at a small …

detection function, particularly to the so-called shoulder condition, which ensures that an animal is almost certain to be …

function. In particular, the estimation is influenced by the so-called shoulder condition, which guarantees that detection is … the negative exponential model does not. Testing whether the shoulder condition is consistent with data is a crucial issue …. In this paper we propose the uniformly most powerful unbiased test for the shoulder condition in the exponential mixture …