Cues are treated as an indirect count, requiring the use of multipliers.
A data.frame with 109 rows and 15 variables.
`Region.Label stratum labels
Area size (km^2) of each stratum
Sample.Label transect labels
Cue.rate rate of blows per animal per hour
Cue.rate.SE variability in cue rate
Cue.rate.df degrees of freedom (number of animals sampled for cues)
object object ID
distance perpendicular distance (km)
Sample.Fraction proportion of full circle scanned (radians)
Sample.Fraction.SE variability in sampling fraction (0)
Search.time Duration of scanning effort (hr)
bss Beaufort sea state
sp Species detected (all observations W in these data)
size Number of animals in group (all 1 in these data)
Study.Area study area name
Because whale blows disappear instantaneously, there is no need to measure a decay rate. However a cue production rate (blows per individual per unit time) is required, as is a measure of variability of that rate.