<div dir="ltr">Hi Fernando, thanks for the reply!<div>Yes I tried playing around with variability in detection probabilities, but I still seem to always get overestimated detection probabilities. Not to worry. </div><div>Thanks,</div><div>George </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 20, 2018 at 2:16 AM, Fernando Colchero <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:colchero@imada.sdu.dk" target="_blank">colchero@imada.sdu.dk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi George,<div><br></div><div>   For the recapture probabilities we use beta priors with parameters s1 = 1 and s2 = 1. Unfortunately we have not yet incorporated the option to change the priors, but you can determine different recapture probabilities for different years. I’m not sure if this may help. <br><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On 17 Aug 2018, at 19:25, George Brooks <<a href="mailto:boa10gb@vt.edu" target="_blank">boa10gb@vt.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_1094361062945716657Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Hi all, <div><br></div><div>I am a PhD student at Virginia Tech studying amphibian and reptile conservation. I am new to this mailing list, so apologies if this question has already been addressed.</div><div><br></div><div>I'm having difficulty estimating detection probabilities from my data; specifically, they are consistently overestimated, and hence survival is consistently underestimated.</div><div><br></div><div>Looking through the documentation, I could not find information for the following:</div><div><br></div><div>1) What is the default prior for detection probabilities?</div><div>2) Can an informative prior be specified in the basta() function? </div><div><br></div><div>Any help or advice on this topic would be greatly appreciated.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks,</div><div>George Brooks</div></div></div></div>
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