8. Open CMR: Cormack- Jolly-Seber

Tuesday - Introduction to Cormack-Jolly-Seber (CJS) models

• READING: CHAPTER 12 (remainder) Conroy and Carroll (2009)

• READING: MARK ONLINE BOOK

  • Chapter 1

  • Chapter 4

•     MARK/ RMark to estimate survival from CJS studies 

• Assignment part 1 -- CJS for group and time effects; CJS with "age" or cohort structure

Thursday  - CJS models continued-- age structure; multistate models; tag recovery models

• •  READING: CHAPTER 7 MARK BOOK; CHAPTER 10 MARK BOOK

• Age structured models in RMark

Special case of CJS:

• Tag recovery models

• Assignment part 2 -- CJS for age effects when age at release can be determined