Introduction -- Primer on wildlife population dynamics -- Estimating population sex ratios -- Estimating productivity -- Estimating survival -- Estimating harvest and harvest mortality -- Estimating the rate of population change -- Analysis of population indices -- Estimating population abundance -- Integration of analytical techniques -- Appendix A. Statistical concepts and theory -- Appendix B. Glossary of symbols -- Appendix C. Program USER -- Appendix D. Mathematica code for calculating the variance of the finite rate of populations change, var([circumflex over lambda]), from a matrix population model.