Rcapture (version 1.3-1)

catb: Catbird Site Occupancy Data

Description

This data set contains site occupancy data for catbirds. The number of capture occasions $t$ is 11.

Usage

data(catb)

source

Royle, A. J. (2006) Site occupancy models with heterogeneous detection probabilities. Biometrics, 62, 97--102

Details

This data set is presented in Royle (2006). It comes from an experiment in which 50 locations have been visited 11 times. The presence or absence of catbirds was noted at each visit. The experiment aims at estimating the number of locations (<=50) at="" which="" catbirds="" are="" present.="" in="" the="" data="" set="" catb, the frequencies represent the number of locations at which catbirbs have been detected $i$ times, out of $t=11$ visits. The frequencies for $i=7,\ldots,11$ are null and do not appear in the data set.

Examples

data(catb)
desc <- descriptive(catb, dfreq = TRUE, dtype = "nbcap", t = 11)
plot(desc)
   # The heterogeneity graph is mildly convex, mostly because of 
   # 2 sites where the catbirds have been seen six times.

closedp.0(catb, dfreq = TRUE, dtype = "nbcap", t = 11)
   # The residuals are OK. The occupancy rate (N/50) estimates 
   # varies between 40.6\% for M0 and 49.4\% for Mh Gamma.
   # One could also try fitting M0 removing the 2 unusual sites:
closedp.0(catb, dfreq = TRUE, dtype = "nbcap", t = 11, t0 = 5)
   # M0 fits very well and the occupancy rate estimate is 42.6\%.