LBRecap.all: Standard behavioural and time effect models via unconditional...

Description Usage Arguments Details Value Author(s) References See Also Examples

View source: R/LBRecap.all.R

Description

Comparative point and interval estimates for the population size N obtained fitting many alternative behavioural and time effect capture-recapture models. AIC index is reported for each alternative model.

Usage

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LBRecap.all(data, last.column.count=FALSE, neval=1000, by.incr=1,
   which.mod=c("all","standard"), sort=c("default","AIC"))

Arguments

data

can be one of the following:

  1. an M by t binary matrix/data.frame

  2. a matrix/data.frame with (t+1) columns according to the value of
    last.column.count

  3. a t-dimensional array or table representing the counts of the 2^t contingency table of binary outcomes M is the number of units captured at least once and t is the number of capture occasions.

last.column.count

a logical. In the default case last.column.count=FALSE each row of data represents the complete capture history for each observed unit. When codelast.column.count=TRUE in each row the first t entries represent one of the possible observed complete capture histories and the last entry (last column) is the number of observed units with that capture history

neval

a positive integer. neval is the number of alternative values of the population size N where the likelihood is evaluated and then maximized. They run from the minimum value M and they are increased by by.incr (see below the description of the by.incr argument). The default value is neval=1000.

by.incr

a positive integer. by.incr represents the increment on the sequence of evaluated values for N. The default value is by.incr=1.

which.mod

a character. which.mod selects which models are fitted and compared. In the default setting which.mod="all" all alternative models are fitted including new behavioural models based on alternative meaningful covariates (see Details). When which.mod="standard" the function only fits classical behavioural models with either enduring effects as in M_b, M_{c_1b}, M_{c_2b} or ephemeral effects as in purely Markovian M_{c_1} and M_{c_2}

sort

character. sort selects the order of models.

Details

The available models are: M_0, M_b, M_t, M_{c_1}, M_{c_1b}, M_{c_2}, M_{c_2b}, M_{mc},M_{mc_{int}}, M_{mc_{count}} and M_{mc_{count.int}}. This function LBRecap.all can be computing intensive for high values of neval.

Value

A data.frame with one row corresponding to each model and the following columns:

model: model considered

npar: number of parameters

AIC: Akaike's information criterion

Nhat: estimate of population size

Ninf: lower 95 \% confidence limit

Nsup: upper 95 \% confidence limit

Author(s)

Danilo Alunni Fegatelli and Luca Tardella

References

Alunni Fegatelli, D. and Tardella, L. (2016), Flexible behavioral capture–recapture modeling. Biometrics, 72(1):125-135. doi:10.1111/biom.12417

Alunni Fegatelli D. (2013) New methods for capture-recapture modelling with behavioural response and individual heterogeneity. http://hdl.handle.net/11573/918752

Alunni Fegatelli D., Tardella L. (2012) Improved inference on capture recapture models with behavioural effects. Statistical Methods & Applications Applications Volume 22, Issue 1, pp 45-66 10.1007/s10260-012-0221-4

Farcomeni A. (2011) Recapture models under equality constraints for the conditional capture probabilities. Biometrika 98(1):237–242

Otis D. L., Burnham K. P., White G. C, Anderson D. R. (1978) Statistical Inference From Capture Data on Closed Animal Populations, Wildlife Monographs.

Yang H.C., Chao A. (2005) Modeling animals behavioral response by Markov chain models for capture-recapture experiments, Biometrics 61(4), 1010-1017

See Also

LBRecap, BBRecap.all

Examples

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## Not run: 
 data(greatcopper)
 LBRecap.all(greatcopper)

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