Mark-Recapture Distance Sampling (MRDS) Removal - PI

Mark-Recapture Distance Sampling (MRDS) Analysis of Removal Observer Configuration and Point Independence

Usage

# S3 method for class 'rem'
ddf(
  dsmodel,
  mrmodel,
  data,
  method = NULL,
  meta.data = list(),
  control = list(),
  call = ""
)

Arguments

dsmodel: distance sampling model specification; model list with key function and scale formula if any
mrmodel: mark-recapture model specification; model list with formula and link
data: analysis dataframe
method: not used
meta.data: list containing settings controlling data structure
control: list containing settings controlling model fitting
call: original function call used to call ddf

Value

result: an rem model object which is composed of rem.fi and ds model objects

Details

MRDS analysis based on point independence involves two separate and independent analyses of the mark-recapture data and the distance sampling data. For the removal observer configuration, the mark-recapture data are analysed with a call to ddf.rem.fi (see Laake and Borchers 2004) to fit conditional distance sampling detection functions to estimate p(0), detection probability at distance zero for the primary observer based on independence at zero (eq 6.22 in Laake and Borchers 2004). Independently, the distance data, the observations from the primary observer, are used to fit a conventional distance sampling (CDS) (likelihood eq 6.6) or multi-covariate distance sampling (MCDS) (likelihood eq 6.14) model for the detection function, g(y), such that g(0)=1. The detection function for the primary observer is then created as p(y)=p(0)*g(y) (eq 6.28 of Laake and Borchers 2004) from which predictions are made. ddf.rem is not called directly by the user and is called from ddf with method="rem".

For a complete description of each of the calling arguments, see ddf. The argument data is the dataframe specified by the argument data in ddf. The arguments dsmodel, mrmodel, control and meta.data are defined the same as in ddf.

References

Laake, J.L. and D.L. Borchers. 2004. Methods for incomplete detection at distance zero. In: Advanced Distance Sampling, eds. S.T. Buckland, D.R.Anderson, K.P. Burnham, J.L. Laake, D.L. Borchers, and L. Thomas. Oxford University Press.

Author

Jeff Laake