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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi,<br>
      <br>
      You can get the technical document from github
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/a4a/tech-doc/blob/master/a4aAssessmentMethodology.pdf?raw=true">https://github.com/a4a/tech-doc/blob/master/a4aAssessmentMethodology.pdf?raw=true</a>
      .<br>
      <br>
      Best<br>
      <br>
      EJ<br>
      <br>
      On 02/25/2015 12:14 PM, Luis Ridao wrote:<br>
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      Hi Ernesto,<br>
      <br>
      Thanks for your useful response.<br>
      There was never any intention on replicating the XSA but given the
      huge disparity<br>
      in both the XSA and a4a outputs I was wondering why it was so.<br>
      <br>
      A statistical model sounds more sound than XSA but the problem
      with a4a is that there is no much documentation to see upon (or
      maybe it's me who can't find it)<br>
      <br>
      Your suggestion on including a year trend in the catchability of
      the trawl cpue for example sounds good. The problem is how to
      implement it.<br>
      <br>
      Thanks again,<br>
      Luis<br>
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      <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 02/24/2015 09:01 AM, Ernesto
        wrote:<br>
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        <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Hi,<br>
          <br>
          Sorry for the late reply.<br>
          <br>
          The problem is that your catch data has a large number of ages
          that don't have tunning data. The default model for a4a was
          not written for those cases. Check <br>
          <br>
          a4afit <- sca(gul0001, gul.indices)<br>
          wireframe(data~year+age, data=harvest(a4afit))<br>
          <br>
          F in the last ages gets loose and the fit is quite poor.<br>
          <br>
          Once that you want to compare with XSA we can take the same
          kind of approach, which is to force the oldest ages Fs the
          same. In this case the model will fit one coefficient (times
          the year coefficients) for ages older than 18, which mean they
          are fit together, which I think is slightly different from
          XSA. Note that you have a large +group in some years. <br>
          <br>
          This can be done using the "replace" method.<br>
          <br>
          fmod <- ~te(replace(age, age>18, 18), year, k = c(6,
          10), bs = "tp")<br>
          a4afit <- sca(gul0001, gul.indices, fmodel=fmod)<br>
          <br>
          For comparison<br>
          xsafit <- FLXSA(gul0001, gul.indices, FLXSA.control())<br>
          <br>
          wireframe(data~year+age|qname,
          data=as.data.frame(FLQuants(a4a=harvest(a4afit),
          xsa=xsafit@harvest)))<br>
          <br>
          Now, the one million dollars question is why you want to
          replicate XSA ;)<br>
          <br>
          Best<br>
          <br>
          EJ<br>
          <br>
          ps: Take a look at the residuals and you'll see that both fits
          have some odd residuals. In a4a you have a couple of simple
          options to improve this fit, like including a year trend in
          the catchability of the trawl cpue, etc.<br>
          <br>
          bubbles(age~year|qname, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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            href="mailto:data=xsafit@index.res">data=xsafit@index.res</a>)<br>
          plot(residuals(a4afit, gul0001, gul.indices))<br>
          <br>
          On 02/18/2015 02:35 PM, Havstovan FAMRI wrote:<br>
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                  <div>Hi,</div>
                  <div><br>
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                  <div>Well that solved the problem (trimming the
                    indices object trim(gul.indices[[2]], age 4:12). No
                    errors come up but stock numbers and F's are really
                    spurious</div>
                  <div>and nothing in the range of the XSA run. F are
                    given below as a example:</div>
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                  <div>> gulfit@harvest[,ac(2010:2014)]  # a4a output</div>
                  <div>An object of class "FLQuant"</div>
                  <div>, , unit = unique, season = all, area = unique</div>
                  <div><br>
                  </div>
                  <div>    year</div>
                  <div>age  2010       2011       2012       2013      
                    2014     </div>
                  <div>  4  0.00061883 0.00054841 0.00088312 0.00104010
                    0.00070947</div>
                  <div>  5  0.00194001 0.00170594 0.00221326 0.00254813
                    0.00223464</div>
                  <div>  6  0.00515556 0.00454088 0.00496769 0.00561751
                    0.00602334</div>
                  <div>  7  0.01007180 0.00901793 0.00900872 0.01006750
                    0.01202780</div>
                  <div>  8  0.01384780 0.01273870 0.01257350 0.01389800
                    0.01666770</div>
                  <div>  9  0.01448220 0.01365150 0.01385510 0.01499370
                    0.01669910</div>
                  <div>  10 0.01336920 0.01269240 0.01303890 0.01351880
                    0.01358130</div>
                  <div>  11 0.01248430 0.01165750 0.01145380 0.01107690
                    0.01019620</div>
                  <div>  12 0.01247860 0.01127330 0.00997400 0.00880635
                    0.00769486</div>
                  <div>  13 0.01285800 0.01125750 0.00874288 0.00700203
                    0.00595635</div>
                  <div>  14 0.01248820 0.01082000 0.00757566 0.00557152
                    0.00460538</div>
                  <div>  15 0.01064480 0.00939845 0.00633618 0.00439713
                    0.00344647</div>
                  <div>  16 0.00797521 0.00732193 0.00509501 0.00344610
                    0.00249670</div>
                  <div>  17 0.00569563 0.00541743 0.00403299 0.00273092
                    0.00182383</div>
                  <div>  18 0.00435670 0.00416232 0.00326465 0.00224600
                    0.00142545</div>
                  <div>  19 0.00388555 0.00355594 0.00278197 0.00194974
                    0.00124088</div>
                  <div>  20 0.00406418 0.00340829 0.00250123 0.00177887
                    0.00119688</div>
                  <div>  21 0.00465988 0.00349410 0.00231912 0.00166745
                    0.00122197</div>
                  <div><br>
                  </div>
                  <div>units:  f</div>
                  <div>> gul_F[,ac(2010:2014)]  # XSA output</div>
                  <div>     2010   2011   2012   2013   2014</div>
                  <div>4  0.0047 0.0115 0.0015 0.0066 0.0053</div>
                  <div>5  0.0143 0.0311 0.0100 0.0154 0.0296</div>
                  <div>6  0.0675 0.0787 0.0485 0.0655 0.0872</div>
                  <div>7  0.1257 0.1506 0.0947 0.1182 0.1404</div>
                  <div>8  0.1696 0.2211 0.1632 0.1897 0.2082</div>
                  <div>9  0.2107 0.2428 0.1669 0.2651 0.2607</div>
                  <div>10 0.2624 0.3209 0.2170 0.2783 0.2700</div>
                  <div>11 0.2686 0.3086 0.2396 0.3374 0.2840</div>
                  <div>12 0.3309 0.4213 0.2750 0.3371 0.2146</div>
                  <div>13 0.4980 0.6288 0.4110 0.4805 0.2861</div>
                  <div>14 0.4428 0.5557 0.4666 0.5562 0.3298</div>
                  <div>15 0.4462 0.5266 0.4679 0.6606 0.4605</div>
                  <div>16 0.3444 0.4555 0.4277 0.5946 0.4433</div>
                  <div>17 0.2812 0.3540 0.3561 0.5347 0.3910</div>
                  <div>18 0.2529 0.3157 0.3512 0.4841 0.3601</div>
                  <div>19 0.4566 0.2772 0.1803 0.2773 0.3215</div>
                  <div>20 0.2534 0.3124 0.2804 0.4170 0.4099</div>
                  <div>21 0.2534 0.3124 0.2804 0.4170 0.4099</div>
                  <div><br>
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                  <div>best,</div>
                  <div>Luis</div>
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