Abstract
WiSP is an R library of functions designed as a teaching tool to illustrate methods used to estimate the abundance of closed wildlife populations. It enables users to generate animal populations having realistically complex spatial and individual characteristics, to generate survey designs for a variety of survey techniques, to survey the populations and to estimate the abundance. It can be used to assess properties of estimators when the model assumptions are violated.
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Zucchini, W., Erdelmeier, M., Borchers, D. (2002). A Wildlife Simulation Package (WiSP). In: Härdle, W., Rönz, B. (eds) Compstat. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-57489-4_16
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