Slides
Here you can find the slides used in the lectures. They are provided in three formats (where possible): PDF (for printing), HTML (for viewing online, with animations) and the source R presentation files (so you can see how all the graphics were produced).
Lectures
| Lecture name | HTML | Rpres | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction to R | |||
| Distance sampling review & assumptions | Notes | ||
| Simulation of distance sampling | |||
| What is a density surface model? | HTML | Rpres | |
| Generalized Additive Models | HTML | Rpres | |
| DSM model checking | HTML | Rpres | |
| Multivariate smoothing, model selection | HTML | Rpres | |
| DSM predictions and variance | HTML | Rpres | |
| DSM practical advice and advanced topics | HTML | Rpres | |
| Estimation with incomplete detection at distance zero | |||
| Mark-recapture distance sampling (MRDS) in Distance 7.1 | |||
| MRDS Example: faecal pellet survey |