Analysis of Capture-Recapture Data

New developments in the statistical modelling of presence/absence data

Rachel McCrea, Byron Morgan and Martin Ridout

NERC Innovation Workshop - 27th January 2015

Many different types of data can be collected on animal populations. This workshop focusses on the collection and analysis of presence/absence data and outlines the modern statistical developments of occupancy modelling. This workshop was run as part of the EnvEast Innovation training programme.

Programme

Introductory tutorial: slides

Covariates: Examples involving butterflies and newts

Abundance estimation using presence/absence data slides

Models for spatial replication slides

Occupancy as a hidden Markov model