5.  Capture-mark-recapture (CMR)

Tuesday

• READING: 

  • CHAPTER 10 CONROY AND CARROLL (2009)

  • Chapter 14 MARK online book

  • RMark appendix in MARK online book

LECTURE/ LAB

• Basics of CMR for closed populations

• Organizing field data from a CMR study

• R code for 2- sample analysis and sample size estimation

• Lincoln-Petersen likelihood and simulation

• Motivation for multi-sample analysis

• Programs MARK and the RMark package in R

Thursday 

• AIC and multi- model inference (talking points)

• Study design in multi-sample studies

• Individual covariates (Huggins models)

• Goodness of fit

• Other CMR issues

Assignment