Are there any example data sets and R code for Distance sampling (preferably point counts) with many covariates?

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Salvador Mandujano

See Kery and Royle's book: "Applied Hierarchical Modeling in Ecology."

http://distancesampling.org/R/

https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/Distance/Distance.pdf

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/07/14/063891.full.pdf

https://rdrr.io/cran/Rdistance/man/Rdistance-package.html

Alexander J. Wolf

The package Unmarked, referenced heavily in the Kery and Royle book mentioned, has distance sampling functions and sample datasets in the vignettes.

Brian Leo

I got the Kery and Royle book and have been going through it. Did you ever have trouble running the WinBUGS code in chapter 8? Can't seem to get some of it running.