Title: Introduction to Program Mark Date: 2.5 days; 13-15 August 2007 Instructors: Dr. Gary White, Dr. David Anderson, Dr. Paul Doherty $750 ($650 students currently registered, editors, and associate editors cu= rrently serving)
This workshop will provide biologists an introduction to the main-stream an= alyses performed by Program MARK, and the familiarity with the program to p= erform these analyses. A mixture of lectures and laboratory exercises will= be provided. The Cormack-Jolly-Seber (CJS) mark-recapture, band (tag or r= ing) recovery, and known fate models will be covered in detail. More advan= ced models will be described so that participants will understand the benef= its of these models, but those models would not be covered extensively. Us= e of covariates, including individual covariates, will be covered with the = CJS and band recovery models. The clientele for this workshop should have = a working familiarity with model selection principles or have taken the AIC= shortcourse. Kenneth Wilson, Professor and Interim Department Head Department of Fish, Wildlife, and Conservation Biology Colorado State University For group mailings: Use of this mail list is intended exclusively for internal communication at= Colorado State University. Any unauthorized use is prohibited.
