ESTIMATING STATE-TRANSITION PROBABILITIES FOR UNOBSERVABLE STATES USING CAPTURE–RECAPTURE/RESIGHTING DATA

Temporary emigration was identified some time ago as causing potential problems in capture–recapture studies, and in the last five years approaches have been developed for dealing with special cases of this general problem. Temporary emigration can be viewed more generally as involving transitions to and from an unobservable state, and frequently the state itself is one of biological interest (e.g., “nonbreeder”). Development of models that permit estimation of relevant parameters in the presence of an unobservable state requires either extra information (e.g., as supplied by Pollock's robust design) or the following classes of model constraints: reducing the order of Markovian transition probabilities, imposing a degree of determinism on transition probabilities, removing state specificity of survival probabilities, and imposing temporal constancy of parameters. The objective of the work described in this paper is to investigate estimability of model parameters under a variety of models that include an u...

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