R/SunfishIN.R

In droglenc/FSAdata: Data to Support Fish Stock Assessment ('FSA') Package

#' @title Summarized multiple mark-recapture data for Redear Sunfish.
#'
#' @description The number of Redear Sunfish (\emph{Lepomis microlophus}) caught in multiple samples from Gordy Lake, IN. The caught fish were examined for previous marks, marked (if previously unmarked), and then returned to the population.
#'
#' @name SunfishIN
#' 
#' @docType data
#' 
#' @format A data frame with 6 observations on the following 4 variables:
#'  \describe{
#'    \item{t}{Sample number} 
#'    \item{caught}{Total number of fish caught in the sample}
#'    \item{recaps}{Number of previously marked fish in the sample}
#'    \item{retmarks}{Number of marked fish returned to the population}
#'  }
#'  
#' @section Topic(s):
#'  \itemize{
#'    \item Population Size
#'    \item Abundance
#'    \item Mark-Recapture
#'    \item Capture-Recapture
#'    \item Schnabel
#'    \item Schumacher-Eschmeyer
#'  }
#' 
#' @concept Abundance
#' @concept Population Size
#' @concept Mark-Recapture
#' @concept Capture-Recapture
#' @concept Schnabel
#'
#' @source Originally from Gerking, S.D. 1953. Vital statistics of the fish population of Gordy Lake, Indiana. Transactions of the American Fisheries Society. 82:48-67. But also found in Table 2.4 of Krebs, C.J. 1999. Ecological Methodology. Addison-Welsey Educational Publishing, second edition and Table 4.4 of Ricker, W.E. 1975. Computation and interpretation of biological statistics of fish populations. Technical Report Bulletin 191, Bulletin of the Fisheries Research Board of Canada. \href{https://raw.githubusercontent.com/fishR-Core-Team/FSAdata/main/data-raw/SunfishIN.csv}{CSV file}
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#' @keywords datasets
#' 
#' @examples
#' data(SunfishIN)
#' str(SunfishIN)
#' SunfishIN
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