Article,
Flexible hierarchical mark-recapture modeling for open populations using WinBUGS
Environmental and Ecological Statistics, 16 (3): 369--387 (September 2009)
DOI: 10.1007/s10651-007-0069-1
Abstract
Hierarchical mark-recapture models offer three advantages over classical mark-recapture models: (i) they allow expression of complicated models in terms of simple components; (ii) they provide a convenient way of modeling missing data and latent variables in a way that allows expression of relationships involving latent variables in the model; (iii) they provide a convenient way of introducing parsimony into models involving many nuisance parameters. Expressing models using the complete data likelihood we show how many of the standard mark-recapture models for open populations can be readily fitted using the software WinBUGS. We include examples that illustrate fitting the Cormack-Jolly-Seber model, multi-state and multi-event models, models including auxiliary data, and models including density dependence. PUBLICATION ABSTRACT
Tags
- bayesian
- capture-recapture,
- hierarchical
- inference,
- jags/bugs,
- model,
- models
- open-population
- \_tablet,
