You signed in with another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You signed out in another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.You switched accounts on another tab or window. Reload to refresh your session.Dismiss alert
David Lawrence Miller edited this page Jan 16, 2014
·
15 revisions
Distance - an R package for distance sampling analysis
Rationale
The most feature-complete distance sampling analysis package (mrds) is not very user friendly. Distance provides a simple interface to the functionality of mrds. Distance is a wrapper around mrds, so eventually it is hoped that all of the features of mrds will be incorporated.
library(Distance)
# Golf tee data
data(book.tee.data)
# just take the data from observer 1
tee.data<-book.tee.data$book.tee.dataframe[book.tee.data$book.tee.dataframe$observer==1,]
# run the analysis, selecting number of adjustments by AIC
# but constraining for monotonicity
ds.model<-ds(tee.data,4,monotonicity="strict")
# usual R functions
summary(ds.model)
plot(ds.model)
Coming soon
The aim is for Distance to include most of the functionality of mrds. If there is a particular feature that you would like to see please log it as an Issue.
References
Buckland, S.T., Anderson, D.R., Burnham, K.P., Laake, J.L., Borchers, D.L., and Thomas, L. (2001). Distance Sampling. Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK.
Buckland, S.T., Anderson, D.R., Burnham, K.P., Laake, J.L., Borchers, D.L., and Thomas, L. (2004). Advanced Distance Sampling. Oxford University Press. Oxford, UK.
Royle, J.A., Dawson, D.K, and Bates, S. Modeling Abundance Effects in Distance Sampling (2004). Ecology 85(6) pp. 1591-1597