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The estimates of egg abundance-at-age obtained with the traditional method were biased upwards, compared with estimates obtained with the proposed EM algorithm. The EM method also provided the most accurate and precise estimates, in terms of fitting an exponential-decay, egg-mortality model and the back-calculation of the time of spawning for two datasets used as examples. Besides the ageing of fish eggs, the method described here can be used for any analysis involving the fitting of multinomial models to age and stage classified data, such as the ageing of post-ovulatory follicles.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/icesjms\/fsp027","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,2,22]],"date-time":"2009-02-22T03:48:50Z","timestamp":1235274530000},"page":"607-616","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":5,"title":["Using the EM algorithm to age fish eggs"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"66","author":[{"given":"Alberto G.","family":"Murta","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto Nacional de Recursos Biol\u00f3gicos \u2014 IPIMAR, Avenida de Bras\u00edlia, 1449-006 Lisboa, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Catarina","family":"Vendrell","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Instituto Nacional de Recursos Biol\u00f3gicos \u2014 IPIMAR, Avenida de Bras\u00edlia, 1449-006 Lisboa, 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