Re: [R-sig-eco] Package to analyse population time series (trend analysis)

2016-10-19 Thread Manuel Spínola
Thank you very much to both. I analyzing counts of flying Ara macaw over a bridge. I could have the data for 2 more sites, but essentially is one site. There are monthly counts, but I am planning to use the maximum count for each year. These are not census data, only counts with imperfect detec

Re: [R-sig-eco] Package to analyse population time series (trend analysis)

2016-10-19 Thread Philippi, Tom
Manuel-- The proper package depends entirely on what your data are: how many sites you collect counts for, whether those sites are a probability sample over an area or the only locations you are making inferences about (e.g., census counts), whether those counts have Poisson error, overdispersion (

Re: [R-sig-eco] Package to analyse population time series (trend analysis)

2016-10-19 Thread Peter Solymos
Manuel, There are few ecology focused packages besides ARIMA() and the forecast package, for example: - popbio (based mostly on the Matrix Population Models by Caswell (2001) and Quantitative Conservation Biology by Morris and Doak (2002). - PVAClone, that uses JAGS and is based on Nadeem, K., L

[R-sig-eco] Package to analyse population time series (trend analysis)

2016-10-19 Thread Manuel Spínola
Dear list members, What is the appropriate package to analyze population time series (trend analysis) when you have one count per year. Best, Manuel -- *Manuel Spínola, Ph.D.* Instituto Internacional en Conservación y Manejo de Vida Silvestre Universidad Nacional Apartado 1350-3000 Heredia COS