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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:14.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US"> Sorry for the late reply. What you mention might be the issue, particularly the 100% recapture, although we found the same problem in an older version of BaSTA, particularly
the version that is currently in CRAN. I can send you the updated version, but alternatively, I can send you another package I’ve developed based on BaSTA but that works on census data, which might be more appropriate in your case.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Basta-users <basta-users-bounces@lists.r-forge.r-project.org> on behalf of Tschirren, Barbara <B.Tschirren@exeter.ac.uk><br>
<b>Date: </b>Monday, 13 December 2021 at 09.40<br>
<b>To: </b>basta-users@lists.r-forge.r-project.org <basta-users@lists.r-forge.r-project.org><br>
<b>Subject: </b>[Basta-users] Perfect detection problem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:white">Dear BaSTA Team</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt">,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I tried to estimate age-specific survival in my system but continued to get the error message<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Calculating DIC...Error in rep(0, nbd) : invalid 'times' argument</span></i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">My system has a 100% detection probability and 100% of the birth dates are known. I started to suspect that this might cause the problem. Indeed,
when randomly adding some observation uncertainty (i.e. replacing a single known birth date with 0) the simulations ran smoothly. Is there a way to get around this problem, e.g. by specifying very strong priors?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Many thanks for your help,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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