The key results of this thesis are (1) an extension of N-mixture models to incorporate the additional layer of obfuscation brought by observing counts from a related auxiliary population (rather than the target population), (2) an extension of N-mixture models to allow for grouped counts, the purpose being two-fold: to extend the applicability of N-mixtures to larger population sizes, and to allow for the use of coarse counts in fitting N-mixture models, (3) a new R package allowing the easy application of the new N-mixture models, (4) a new R package allowing for optimization of multi-parameter functions using arbitrary precision arithmetic, which was a necessary tool for optimization of the likelihood in large population abundance N-mixture models, as well as (5) simulation studies validating the new grouped count models and comparing them to the classic N-mixtures models. / Graduate
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uvic.ca/oai:dspace.library.uvic.ca:1828/11702 |
| Date | 29 April 2020 |
| Creators | Parker, Matthew R. P. |
| Contributors | Cowen, Laura Louise Elizabeth |
| Source Sets | University of Victoria |
| Language | English, English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | Available to the World Wide Web |
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