Week 13 Bayesian approaches to population estimation

T 12 April   Bayes review- building models in OpenBugs

•     Review Week 3 introductory Bayes material

  • Reading: Kéry and Schaub 2011, Chapter 2

• Building a Bayesian model in OpenBugs

  • Fixed effects binomial model

  • Random effects binomial model and Bayesian model selection

  • Single-season occupancy model (Kéry and Schaub 2011, Chapter 13)

• Review exercise 1- Bayesian review

Th 14 April Bayes continued

•  Adding random effects and other hierarchical structure to CJS models

  • Kéry and Schaub 2011, Chapter 7

• Bayesian trickery: using data augmentation to estimate abundance via latent variables

  • Kéry and Schaub 2011, Chapter 6

• Review exercise 2- Bayesian analysis of CMR data