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Feature comparison
DL Miller edited this page Jul 4, 2013
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There are several packages available for analysis of distance sampling data:
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Distance
- this package! An easy interface tomrds
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mrds
- the package incorporated into the Windows application Distance (since it supports many features, the syntax can be rather tricky for beginners). -
unmarked
- uses the heirarchical modelling approach of Royale et al (2004). -
Rdistance
- can be used to perform CDS analyses.
This table provides a feature comparison of the packages:
Feature | Distance |
Rdistance |
unmarked |
mrds |
---|---|---|---|---|
line transects | x | x | x | x |
point transets | x | x | x | |
interval (binned) data | x | x | x | |
continuous data | x | x | x | |
half-normal key | x | x | x | x |
hazard-rate key | x | x | x | x |
uniform key | x | x | x | x |
Gamma key | x | x | ||
negative exponential key | x | |||
adjustment terms | x | x | x | |
AIC adjustment selection | x | x | ||
all possible model selection | x | |||
individual level covariates | x | x | ||
transect level covariates | x | x | x | |
monotonicity constraints | x | x | ||
objects in clusters (group data) | x | x | x | x |
left truncation | x | x | x | |
abundance estimation | x | x | x | x |
density estimation | x | x | x | x |
user-defined likelihood functions | x | |||
dsm compatability |
x | x |