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This package implements both conventional distance sampling analysis and mark-recapture distance sampling methods for when detection on the transect is not certain. Mark-recapture distance sampling methods are described in Borchers et al. (1988) , Laake (1999) and Borchers et al. (2006)

Details

Examples of distance sampling analyses are available at https://distancesampling.org/resources/vignettes.html.

For help with distance sampling and this package, there is a Google Group https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/distance-sampling.

References

Borchers DL, Laake JL, Southwell C, Paxton CLG (2006). “Accommodating unmodelled heterogeneity in double-observer distance sampling surveyss.” Biometrics, 372-378.

Borchers DL, Zucchini W, Fewster RM (1988). “Mark-recapture models for line transect surveys.” Biometrics, 1207–1220.

Laake J (1999). “Distance sampling with independent observers: reducing bias from heterogeneity by weakening the conditional independence assumption.” In Marine mammal survey and assessment methods, 137-148. CRC Press.

Author

Jeff Laake <jeff.laake@noaa.gov>, David Borchers <dlb@mcs.st-and.ac.uk>, Len Thomas <len@mcs.st-and.ac.uk>, David L. Miller <dave@ninepointeightone.net>, Jon Bishop <jonb@mcs.st-and.ac.uk>, Felix Petersma <ftp@st-andrews.ac.uk>