Intermediate-Level Program MARK Workshop
31 May - June 5, 2009
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO
This intermediate-level workshop (primary instruction: Gary White & Ken
Burnham) will provide quantitative biologists and statisticians with the
statistical background to understand the main-stream analyses performed
by Program MARK, and the familiarity with the program to perform these
analyses. A mixture of lectures and laboratory exercises will be
provided. Participants will learn the basics of parameter estimation
with likelihood theory, model selection with Akaike's Information
Criterion (AIC), and the binomial and multinomial distributions. The
Cormack-Jolly-Seber (CJS) mark-recapture, band (tag or ring) recovery,
known fate, and closed captures models will be covered in detail. More
advanced models will be described so that participants will understand
the benefits of these models, but those models would not be covered
extensively. Use of covariates, including individual covariates, will be
covered with the CJS and band recovery models.
The clientele for this workshop are biologists with experience in the
analysis of data from marked animals. The content is aimed at providing
the participants with a solid background in the philosophy, theory, and
analysis of data from marked animals. This is not a workshop for
beginners to this subject.
For further details, see
http://welcome.warnercnr.colostate.edu/~gwhite/mark/workshops.htm
<http://welcome.warnercnr.colostate.edu/%7Egwhite/mark/workshops.htm>
