التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
A general modeling framework for open wildlife populations based on the Polya tree prior. |
| المؤلفون: |
Diana, Alex, Matechou, Eleni, Griffin, Jim, Arnold, Todd, Tenan, Simone, Volponi, Stefano |
| المصدر: |
Biometrics; Sep2023, Vol. 79 Issue 3, p2171-2183, 13p |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
WILDLIFE monitoring, PARAMETRIC equations, TREES, STATISTICAL models, ANIMAL populations |
| مستخلص: |
Wildlife monitoring for open populations can be performed using a number of different survey methods. Each survey method gives rise to a type of data and, in the last five decades, a large number of associated statistical models have been developed for analyzing these data. Although these models have been parameterized and fitted using different approaches, they have all been designed to either model the pattern with which individuals enter and/or exit the population, or to estimate the population size by accounting for the corresponding observation process, or both. However, existing approaches rely on a predefined model structure and complexity, either by assuming that parameters linked to the entry and exit pattern (EEP) are specific to sampling occasions, or by employing parametric curves to describe the EEP. Instead, we propose a novel Bayesian nonparametric framework for modeling EEPs based on the Polya tree (PT) prior for densities. Our Bayesian nonparametric approach avoids overfitting when inferring EEPs, while simultaneously allowing more flexibility than is possible using parametric curves. Finally, we introduce the replicate PT prior for defining classes of models for these data allowing us to impose constraints on the EEPs, when required. We demonstrate our new approach using capture–recapture, count, and ring‐recovery data for two different case studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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