block.info.per.su: Find the block information

In dsm: Density Surface Modelling of Distance Sampling Data

Find the block information

Description

Takes the transect data and works out how many blocks of a given size (in segment terms) fit into each.

Usage

block.info.per.su(block.size, data, name.su)

Arguments

block.size	number of segments per block
data	data used to build the model
name.su	names of the sampling units (i.e., transects)

Value

a data.frame with the following columns

• name the sample unit name (e.g. transect label)

• num.seg number of segments in that transect

• num.block number of blocks available

• start.block block number for first block

• end.block block number for last block

• num.req number of blocks needed for the unit

dsm documentation built on Sept. 9, 2025, 5:49 p.m.