Where can I find programs PRESENCE, MARK, and GENPRES?
Many of the spreadsheet exercises in this project focus on estimating parameters for wildlife populations, such as occupancy, survival rates, and abundance. Gary White and Jim Hines have developed programs to conduct such analyses, and you’ll need to download them…you can find links to these programs on many different pages in the Spreadsheet Project, or just Google them. All of the exercises in this project focus on conducting an analysis first in a spreadsheet. This is to ensure that you understand exactly how parameters are estimated because all of the equations are revealed. However, when it is time to do an analysis of “real” data, you’ll want to use one of these programs because estimation methods are superior to that of a spreadsheet, and because estimates of standard errors are truly a pain to compute in a spreadsheet. I’ve also had papers rejected because a reviewer claimed “You can’t do that in a spreadsheet!
Many of the spreadsheet exercises in this project focus on estimating parameters for wildlife populations, such as occupancy, survival rates, and abundance. Gary White and Jim Hines have developed programs to conduct such analyses, and you’ll need to download them…you can find links to these programs on many different pages in the Spreadsheet Project, or just Google them. All of the exercises in this project focus on conducting an analysis first in a spreadsheet. This is to ensure that you understand exactly how parameters are estimated because all of the equations are revealed. However, when it is time to do an analysis of “real” data, you’ll want to use one of these programs because estimation methods are superior to that of a spreadsheet, and because estimates of standard errors are truly a pain to compute in a spreadsheet (unless you use PopTools).
