# GenEst - Command Line Walkthrough

#### Juniper L. Simonis

#### 2020-03-14

This vignette walks through an example of GenEst at the command line and was constructed using GenEst version 1.4.2 on 2020-03-14.

## Installation

To obtain the most recent version of GenEst, download the most recent version build from USGS or CRAN.

## Data

For this vignette, we will be using a completely generic, mock dataset provided with the GenEst package, which contains Searcher Efficiency (SE), Carcass Persistence (CP), Search Schedule (SS), Density Weighted Proportion (DWP), and Carcass Observation (CO) Data.

    data(mock)
    names(mock)
    #> [1] "SE"  "CP"  "SS"  "DWP" "CO"

## Searcher Efficiency

### Single Searcher Efficiency Model

The central function for searcher efficiency analyses is `pkm`, which, in its most basic form, conducts a singular searcher efficiency analysis (i.e., a singular set of \(p\) and \(k\) formulae and a singular size classification of carcasses). As a first example, we will ignore the size category and use intercept-only models for both \(p\) and \(k\):

    data_SE <- mock$SE
    pkModel <- pkm(formula_p = p ~ 1, formula_k = k ~ 1, data = data_SE)

Here, we have taken advantage of `pkm`’s default behavior of selecting observation columns (see `?pkm` for details).

    head(data_SE)
    #>   seID Visibility HabitatType Season Size Search1 Search2 Search3 Search4
    #> 1  se1          L         HT1     SF    S       1      NA      NA      NA
    #> 2  se2          L         HT1     SF    S       1      NA      NA      NA
    #> 3  se3          L         HT1     WS    S       0       0       0       0
    #> 4  se4          L         HT1     WS    S       1      NA      NA      NA
    #> 5  se5          L         HT1     WS    S       0       1      NA      NA
    #> 6  se6          L         HT1     SF    S       1      NA      NA      NA

If we wanted to explicitly control the observations, we would use the `obsCol` argument:

    pkModel <- pkm(formula_p = p ~ 1, formula_k = k ~ 1, data = data_SE,
                 obsCol = c("Search1", "Search2", "Search3", "Search4")
               )

Note that the search observations must be entered in order such that no carcasses have non-detected observations (i.e., `0`) after detected observations (i.e., `1`). Further, no carcasses can be detected more than once.

If successfully fit, a `pkm` model output contains a number of elements, some printed automatically:

    pkModel
    #> $call
    #> pkm0(formula_p = formula_p, formula_k = formula_k, data = data,
    #>     obsCol = obsCol, kFixed = kFixed, kInit = kInit, CL = CL,
    #>     quiet = quiet)
    #>
    #> $formula_p
    #> p ~ 1
    #>
    #> $formula_k
    #> k ~ 1
    #>
    #> $predictors
    #> character(0)
    #>
    #> $AICc
    #> [1] 1145
    #>
    #> $convergence
    #> [1] 0
    #>
    #> $cell_pk
    #>   cell   n p_median    p_lwr    p_upr k_median   k_lwr    k_upr
    #> 1  all 480 0.568447 0.531657 0.604497 0.599059 0.54296 0.652677
    #>
    #> $CL
    #> [1] 0.9

and others available upon request:

    names(pkModel)
    #>  [1] "call"         "data"         "data0"        "formula_p"
    #>  [5] "formula_k"    "predictors"   "predictors_p" "predictors_k"
    #>  [9] "AIC"          "AICc"         "convergence"  "varbeta"
    #> [13] "cellMM_p"     "cellMM_k"     "nbeta_p"      "nbeta_k"
    #> [17] "betahat_p"    "betahat_k"    "cells"        "ncell"
    #> [21] "cell_pk"      "CL"           "observations" "carcCells"
    #> [25] "loglik"       "pOnly"        "data_adj"
    pkModel$cells
    #>   group CellNames
    #> 1   all       all

The `plot` function has been defined for `pkm` objects, such that one can simply run

    plot(pkModel)

to visualize the model’s output.

You can generate random draws of the \(p\) and \(k\) parameters for each cell grouping (in `pkModel` there are no predictors, so there is one cell grouping called “all”) using the `rpk` function which, like other `r*` functions in R (e.g., `rnorm`, `runif`) takes the number of random draws (`n`) as the first argument:

    rpk(n = 10, pkModel)
    #> $all
    #>               p         k
    #>  [1,] 0.5563750 0.6004306
    #>  [2,] 0.6187891 0.5719940
    #>  [3,] 0.5774506 0.5693542
    #>  [4,] 0.5865538 0.5647973
    #>  [5,] 0.5624632 0.6570616
    #>  [6,] 0.5666363 0.6451200
    #>  [7,] 0.5702825 0.5940179
    #>  [8,] 0.5879962 0.6628894
    #>  [9,] 0.5439837 0.5952563
    #> [10,] 0.5486466 0.6270214

You can complicate the \(p\) and \(k\) formulae independently

    pkm(formula_p = p ~ Visibility, formula_k = k ~ HabitatType, data = data_SE,
      obsCol = c("Search1", "Search2", "Search3", "Search4")
    )
    #> $call
    #> pkm0(formula_p = formula_p, formula_k = formula_k, data = data,
    #>     obsCol = obsCol, kFixed = kFixed, kInit = kInit, CL = CL,
    #>     quiet = quiet)
    #>
    #> $formula_p
    #> p ~ Visibility
    #>
    #> $formula_k
    #> k ~ HabitatType
    #>
    #> $predictors
    #> [1] "Visibility"  "HabitatType"
    #>
    #> $AICc
    #> [1] 1149.67
    #>
    #> $convergence
    #> [1] 0
    #>
    #> $cell_pk
    #>    cell  n p_median    p_lwr    p_upr k_median    k_lwr    k_upr
    #> 1 H.HT1 80 0.564028 0.503246 0.622945 0.560177 0.481763 0.635699
    #> 2 L.HT1 80 0.577879 0.516334 0.637098 0.560177 0.481763 0.635699
    #> 3 M.HT1 80 0.563479 0.504787 0.620445 0.560177 0.481763 0.635699
    #> 4 H.HT2 80 0.564028 0.503246 0.622945 0.631251 0.556647 0.700066
    #> 5 L.HT2 80 0.577879 0.516334 0.637098 0.631251 0.556647 0.700066
    #> 6 M.HT2 80 0.563479 0.504787 0.620445 0.631251 0.556647 0.700066
    #>
    #> $CL
    #> [1] 0.9

And you can fix \(k\) at a nominal value between 0 and 1 (inclusive) using the `kFixed` argument

    pkm(formula_p = p ~ Visibility, kFixed = 0.7, data = data_SE,
      obsCol = c("Search1", "Search2", "Search3", "Search4"))
    #> $call
    #> pkm0(formula_p = formula_p, formula_k = formula_k, data = data,
    #>     obsCol = obsCol, kFixed = kFixed, kInit = kInit, CL = CL,
    #>     quiet = quiet)
    #>
    #> $formula_p
    #> p ~ Visibility
    #>
    #> $formula_k
    #> fixedk
    #>    0.7
    #>
    #> $predictors
    #> [1] "Visibility"
    #>
    #> $AICc
    #> [1] 1155.63
    #>
    #> $convergence
    #> [1] 0
    #>
    #> $cell_pk
    #>   cell   n p_median    p_lwr    p_upr k_median k_lwr k_upr
    #> 1    H 160 0.531356 0.474326 0.587579      0.7   0.7   0.7
    #> 2    L 160 0.544816 0.487026 0.601424      0.7   0.7   0.7
    #> 3    M 160 0.537882 0.482043 0.592786      0.7   0.7   0.7
    #>
    #> $CL
    #> [1] 0.9

### Set of Searcher Efficiency Models

If the arg `allCombos = TRUE` is provided, `pkm` fits a set of `pkm` models defined as all allowable models simpler than, and including, the provided model for both formulae (where “allowable” means that any interaction terms have all component terms included in the model).

Consider the following model set analysis, where visibility and habitat type are included in the \(p\) formula but only habitat type is in the \(k\) formula. This generates a set of 10 models:

    pkmModSet <- pkm(formula_p = p ~ Visibility*HabitatType,
                   formula_k = k ~ HabitatType, data = data_SE,
                   obsCol = c("Search1", "Search2", "Search3", "Search4"),
                   allCombos = TRUE
                 )
    class(pkmModSet)
    #> [1] "pkmSet" "list"
    names(pkmModSet)
    #>  [1] "p ~ Visibility * HabitatType; k ~ HabitatType"
    #>  [2] "p ~ Visibility + HabitatType; k ~ HabitatType"
    #>  [3] "p ~ HabitatType; k ~ HabitatType"
    #>  [4] "p ~ Visibility; k ~ HabitatType"
    #>  [5] "p ~ 1; k ~ HabitatType"
    #>  [6] "p ~ Visibility * HabitatType; k ~ 1"
    #>  [7] "p ~ Visibility + HabitatType; k ~ 1"
    #>  [8] "p ~ HabitatType; k ~ 1"
    #>  [9] "p ~ Visibility; k ~ 1"
    #> [10] "p ~ 1; k ~ 1"

The `plot` function is defined for the `pkmSet` class, and by default, creates a new plot window on command for each sub-model. If we want to only plot a specific single (or subset) of models from the full set, we can utilize the `specificModel` argument:

    plot(pkmModSet, specificModel = "p ~ Visibility + HabitatType; k ~ 1")

The resulting model outputs can be compared in an AICc table

    aicc(pkmModSet)
    #>    p Formula                    k Formula          AICc <U+0394>AICc
    #> 10 p ~ 1                        k ~ 1           1145.00  0.00
    #> 5  p ~ 1                        k ~ HabitatType 1145.70  0.70
    #> 3  p ~ HabitatType              k ~ HabitatType 1146.57  1.57
    #> 8  p ~ HabitatType              k ~ 1           1146.76  1.76
    #> 9  p ~ Visibility               k ~ 1           1148.96  3.96
    #> 4  p ~ Visibility               k ~ HabitatType 1149.67  4.67
    #> 2  p ~ Visibility + HabitatType k ~ HabitatType 1150.55  5.55
    #> 7  p ~ Visibility + HabitatType k ~ 1           1150.73  5.73
    #> 1  p ~ Visibility * HabitatType k ~ HabitatType 1153.45  8.45
    #> 6  p ~ Visibility * HabitatType k ~ 1           1153.49  8.49

### Multiple Sizes of Animals and Sets of Searcher Efficiency Models

Often, carcasses are grouped in multiple size classes, and we are interested in analyzing a set of models separately for each size class. To do so, we use the `sizeCol` arg to tell `pkm` which column in `data_CP` gives the carcass size class. If, in addition, `allCombos = TRUE`, `pkm` will fit a `pkmSet` that runs for each unique size class in the column identified by the `sizeCol` argument:

    pkmModSetSize <- pkm(formula_p = p ~ Visibility*HabitatType,
                       formula_k = k ~ HabitatType, data = data_SE,
                       obsCol = c("Search1", "Search2", "Search3", "Search4"),
                       sizeCol = "Size", allCombos = TRUE)
    class(pkmModSetSize)
    #> [1] "pkmSetSize" "list"

The `pkmSetSize` object is a list where each element corresponds to a different unique size class, and contains the associated `pkmSet`object, which itself is a list of `pkm` outputs:

    names(pkmModSetSize)
    #> [1] "L"  "M"  "S"  "XL"
    names(pkmModSetSize[[1]])
    #>  [1] "p ~ Visibility * HabitatType; k ~ HabitatType"
    #>  [2] "p ~ Visibility + HabitatType; k ~ HabitatType"
    #>  [3] "p ~ HabitatType; k ~ HabitatType"
    #>  [4] "p ~ Visibility; k ~ HabitatType"
    #>  [5] "p ~ 1; k ~ HabitatType"
    #>  [6] "p ~ Visibility * HabitatType; k ~ 1"
    #>  [7] "p ~ Visibility + HabitatType; k ~ 1"
    #>  [8] "p ~ HabitatType; k ~ 1"
    #>  [9] "p ~ Visibility; k ~ 1"
    #> [10] "p ~ 1; k ~ 1"

## Carcass Persistence

### Single Carcass Persistence Model

The central function for carcass persistence analyses is `cpm`, which, in its simplest form, conducts a singular carcass persistence analysis (i.e., a singular set of \(l\) and \(s\) formulae and a singular size classification of carcasses). Note that we use \(l\) and \(s\) to reference \(location\) and \(scale\) as the parameters for survival models, following `survreg`, however we also provide an alternative parameterization (using parameters \(a\) and \(b\), referred to as “`ab`” or “ppersist”). As a first example, we will ignore the size category, use intercept-only models for both \(l\) and \(s\), and use the Weibull distribution:

    data_CP <- mock$CP
    cpModel <- cpm(formula_l = l ~ 1, formula_s = s ~ 1, data = data_CP,
                 left = "LastPresentDecimalDays",
                 right = "FirstAbsentDecimalDays", dist = "weibull"
               )

If successfully fit, a `cpm` model output contains a number of elements, some printed automatically:

    cpModel
    #> $call
    #> cpm0(formula_l = formula_l, formula_s = formula_s, data = data,
    #>     left = left, right = right, dist = dist, CL = CL, quiet = quiet)
    #>
    #> $formula_l
    #> l ~ 1
    #>
    #> $formula_s
    #> s ~ 1
    #>
    #> $distribution
    #> [1] "weibull"
    #>
    #> $predictors
    #> character(0)
    #>
    #> $AICc
    #> [1] 2102.11
    #>
    #> $convergence
    #> [1] 0
    #>
    #> $cell_ls
    #>   cell   n l_median l_lwr l_upr s_median s_lwr s_upr
    #> 1  all 480    2.671 2.592 2.749    0.966 0.901 1.037
    #>
    #> $cell_ab
    #>   cell   n pda_median pda_lwr pda_upr pdb_median pdb_lwr pdb_upr
    #> 1  all 480      1.035   0.964    1.11     14.454  13.356  15.627
    #>
    #> $CL
    #> [1] 0.9
    #>
    #> $cell_desc
    #>   cell medianCP        r1        r3        r7       r14       r28
    #> 1  all  10.1437 0.9696732 0.9094574 0.8003887 0.6463498 0.4427757

and others available upon request:

    names(cpModel)
    #>  [1] "call"         "data"         "formula_l"    "formula_s"
    #>  [5] "distribution" "predictors"   "predictors_l" "predictors_s"
    #>  [9] "AIC"          "AICc"         "convergence"  "varbeta"
    #> [13] "cellMM_l"     "cellMM_s"     "nbeta_l"      "nbeta_s"
    #> [17] "betahat_l"    "betahat_s"    "cells"        "ncell"
    #> [21] "cell_ls"      "cell_ab"      "CL"           "observations"
    #> [25] "carcCells"    "loglik"       "cell_desc"
    cpModel$cells
    #>   group CellNames
    #> 1   all       all

The `plot` function has been defined for `cpm` objects, such that one can simply run

    plot(cpModel)

to visualize the model’s output.

You can generate random draws of the \(l\) and \(s\) (or \(a\) and \(b\)) parameters for each cell grouping (in `cpModel` there are no predictors, so there is one cell grouping called “all”) using the `rcp` function which, like other `r*` functions in R (e.g., `rnorm`) takes the number of random draws (`n`) as the first argument:

    rcp(n = 10, cpModel)
    #> $all
    #>              l         s
    #>  [1,] 2.674729 0.9185264
    #>  [2,] 2.654170 0.9580793
    #>  [3,] 2.679276 0.8626884
    #>  [4,] 2.593698 1.0237246
    #>  [5,] 2.672958 0.9862663
    #>  [6,] 2.693391 0.9600881
    #>  [7,] 2.689874 0.9871664
    #>  [8,] 2.660974 0.9431597
    #>  [9,] 2.687849 0.9701271
    #> [10,] 2.637361 0.9962932
    rcp(n = 10, cpModel, type = "ppersist")
    #> $all
    #>            pda      pdb
    #>  [1,] 1.028757 14.09045
    #>  [2,] 1.080592 13.68819
    #>  [3,] 1.046156 14.15653
    #>  [4,] 1.008703 14.50724
    #>  [5,] 1.077635 13.84292
    #>  [6,] 1.039859 13.39791
    #>  [7,] 1.073366 15.50006
    #>  [8,] 1.015855 13.55441
    #>  [9,] 1.041496 13.69175
    #> [10,] 1.026129 13.98558

You can complicate the \(l\) and \(s\) formulae independently

    cpm(formula_l = l ~ Visibility * GroundCover, formula_s = s ~ 1, data = data_CP,
      left = "LastPresentDecimalDays", right = "FirstAbsentDecimalDays",
      dist = "weibull"
    )
    #> $call
    #> cpm0(formula_l = formula_l, formula_s = formula_s, data = data,
    #>     left = left, right = right, dist = dist, CL = CL, quiet = quiet)
    #>
    #> $formula_l
    #> l ~ Visibility * GroundCover
    #>
    #> $formula_s
    #> s ~ 1
    #>
    #> $distribution
    #> [1] "weibull"
    #>
    #> $predictors
    #> [1] "Visibility"  "GroundCover"
    #>
    #> $AICc
    #> [1] 2109.36
    #>
    #> $convergence
    #> [1] 0
    #>
    #> $cell_ls
    #>   cell  n l_median l_lwr l_upr s_median s_lwr s_upr
    #> 1  H.A 80    2.647 2.457 2.836    0.964 0.898 1.034
    #> 2  L.A 80    2.618 2.427 2.809    0.964 0.898 1.034
    #> 3  M.A 80    2.536 2.350 2.722    0.964 0.898 1.034
    #> 4  H.B 80    2.789 2.597 2.981    0.964 0.898 1.034
    #> 5  L.B 80    2.710 2.521 2.900    0.964 0.898 1.034
    #> 6  M.B 80    2.716 2.527 2.905    0.964 0.898 1.034
    #>
    #> $cell_ab
    #>   cell  n pda_median pda_lwr pda_upr pdb_median pdb_lwr pdb_upr
    #> 1  H.A 80      1.037   0.967   1.114     14.112  11.670  17.047
    #> 2  L.A 80      1.037   0.967   1.114     13.708  11.325  16.593
    #> 3  M.A 80      1.037   0.967   1.114     12.629  10.486  15.211
    #> 4  H.B 80      1.037   0.967   1.114     16.265  13.423  19.708
    #> 5  L.B 80      1.037   0.967   1.114     15.029  12.441  18.174
    #> 6  M.B 80      1.037   0.967   1.114     15.120  12.516  18.265
    #>
    #> $CL
    #> [1] 0.9
    #>
    #> $cell_desc
    #>   cell  medianCP        r1        r3        r7       r14       r28
    #> 1  H.A  9.910449 0.9691191 0.9076888 0.7965531 0.6402617 0.4355206
    #> 2  L.A  9.626732 0.9681953 0.9050529 0.7912752 0.6323916 0.4266794
    #> 3  M.A  8.868981 0.9654396 0.8972323 0.7757825 0.6096922 0.4019134
    #> 4  H.B 11.422439 0.9732702 0.9196215 0.8208024 0.6773283 0.4789728
    #> 5  L.B 10.554432 0.9710322 0.9131703 0.8076196 0.6569919 0.4547593
    #> 6  M.B 10.618339 0.9712095 0.9136797 0.8086542 0.6585719 0.4566077

Given that the exponential only has one parameter (\(l\), location), a model for scale (`formula_s`) is not required:

    cpModExp <- cpm(formula_l = l ~ Visibility * GroundCover, data = data_CP,
                  left = "LastPresentDecimalDays",
                  right = "FirstAbsentDecimalDays", dist = "exponential"
                )

### Set of Carcass Persistence Models

If the arg `allCombos = TRUE` is provided, `cpm` fits a set of `cpm` models defined as all allowable models simpler than, and including, the provided model formulae (where “allowable” means that any interaction terms have all component terms included in the model).

In addition, `cpm` with `allCombos` can include any subset of the four base distributions (exponential, weibull, lognormal, loglogistic) and crosses them with the predictor models.

Consider the following model set analysis, where `Visibility` and `Season` are included in the \(l\) formula but only `Visibility` is in the \(s\) formula, and only the exponential and lognormal distributions are included. This generates a set of 15 models:

    cpmModSet <- cpm(formula_l = l ~ Visibility * Season,
                   formula_s = s ~ Visibility, data = data_CP,
                   left = "LastPresentDecimalDays",
                   right = "FirstAbsentDecimalDays",
                   dist = c("exponential", "lognormal"), allCombos = TRUE
                 )
    class(cpmModSet)
    #> [1] "cpmSet" "list"
    names(cpmModSet)
    #>  [1] "dist: exponential; l ~ Visibility * Season; NULL"
    #>  [2] "dist: exponential; l ~ Visibility + Season; NULL"
    #>  [3] "dist: exponential; l ~ Season; NULL"
    #>  [4] "dist: exponential; l ~ Visibility; NULL"
    #>  [5] "dist: exponential; l ~ 1; NULL"
    #>  [6] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Visibility * Season; s ~ Visibility"
    #>  [7] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Visibility + Season; s ~ Visibility"
    #>  [8] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Season; s ~ Visibility"
    #>  [9] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Visibility; s ~ Visibility"
    #> [10] "dist: lognormal; l ~ 1; s ~ Visibility"
    #> [11] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Visibility * Season; s ~ 1"
    #> [12] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Visibility + Season; s ~ 1"
    #> [13] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Season; s ~ 1"
    #> [14] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Visibility; s ~ 1"
    #> [15] "dist: lognormal; l ~ 1; s ~ 1"

The resulting model outputs can be compared in an AICc table

    aicc(cpmModSet)
    #>    Distribution Location Formula        Scale Formula     AICc <U+0394>AICc
    #> 5  exponential  l ~ 1                   NULL           2100.72  0.00
    #> 3  exponential  l ~ Season              NULL           2101.08  0.36
    #> 4  exponential  l ~ Visibility          NULL           2104.16  3.44
    #> 2  exponential  l ~ Visibility + Season NULL           2104.48  3.76
    #> 1  exponential  l ~ Visibility * Season NULL           2108.17  7.45
    #> 15 lognormal    l ~ 1                   s ~ 1          2159.24 58.52
    #> 13 lognormal    l ~ Season              s ~ 1          2160.78 60.06
    #> 10 lognormal    l ~ 1                   s ~ Visibility 2162.15 61.43
    #> 14 lognormal    l ~ Visibility          s ~ 1          2163.19 62.47
    #> 8  lognormal    l ~ Season              s ~ Visibility 2163.67 62.95
    #> 12 lognormal    l ~ Visibility + Season s ~ 1          2164.74 64.02
    #> 9  lognormal    l ~ Visibility          s ~ Visibility 2166.13 65.41
    #> 11 lognormal    l ~ Visibility * Season s ~ 1          2166.91 66.19
    #> 7  lognormal    l ~ Visibility + Season s ~ Visibility 2167.66 66.94
    #> 6  lognormal    l ~ Visibility * Season s ~ Visibility 2169.79 69.07

The `plot` function is defined for the `cpmSet` class, and by default, creates a new plot window on command for each sub-model. If we want to only plot a specific single (or subset) of models from the full set, we can utilize the `specificModel` argument:

    plot(cpmModSet,
      specificModel = "dist: lognormal; l ~ Visibility * Season; s ~ Visibility"
    )

### Multiple Sizes of Animals and Sets of Carcass Persistence Models

Often, carcasses are grouped in multiple size classes, and we are interested in analyzing a set of models separately for each size class. To do so, we furnish `cpm` with `sizeCol`, which is the name of the column in `data_CP` that gives the size classes of the carcasses. If, in addition, `allCombos = TRUE`, then `cpm` returns a `cpmSet` for each unique size class in the column identified by the `sizeCol` argument:

    cpmModSetSize <- cpm(formula_l = l ~ Visibility * Season,
                       formula_s = s ~ Visibility, data = data_CP,
                       left = "LastPresentDecimalDays",
                       right = "FirstAbsentDecimalDays",
                       dist = c("exponential", "lognormal"),
                       sizeCol = "Size", allCombos = TRUE)
    class(cpmModSetSize)
    #> [1] "cpmSetSize" "list"

The `cpmSetSize` object is a list where each element corresponds to a different unique size class, and contains the associated `cpmSet`o bject, which itself is a list of `cpm` outputs:

    names(cpmModSetSize)
    #> [1] "L"  "M"  "S"  "XL"
    names(cpmModSetSize[[1]])
    #>  [1] "dist: exponential; l ~ Visibility * Season; NULL"
    #>  [2] "dist: exponential; l ~ Visibility + Season; NULL"
    #>  [3] "dist: exponential; l ~ Season; NULL"
    #>  [4] "dist: exponential; l ~ Visibility; NULL"
    #>  [5] "dist: exponential; l ~ 1; NULL"
    #>  [6] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Visibility * Season; s ~ Visibility"
    #>  [7] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Visibility + Season; s ~ Visibility"
    #>  [8] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Season; s ~ Visibility"
    #>  [9] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Visibility; s ~ Visibility"
    #> [10] "dist: lognormal; l ~ 1; s ~ Visibility"
    #> [11] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Visibility * Season; s ~ 1"
    #> [12] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Visibility + Season; s ~ 1"
    #> [13] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Season; s ~ 1"
    #> [14] "dist: lognormal; l ~ Visibility; s ~ 1"
    #> [15] "dist: lognormal; l ~ 1; s ~ 1"
    class(cpmModSetSize[[1]])
    #> [1] "cpmSet" "list"

## Generic Detection Probability

For the purposes of mortality estimation, we calculate carcass-specific detection probabilities (see below), which may be difficult to generalize, given the specific history of each observed carcass. Thus, we also provide a simple means to calculate generic detection probabilities that are cell-specific, rather than carcass-specific.

For any estimation of detection probability (\(\hat{g}\)), we need to have singular SE and CP models to use for each of the size classes. Here, we use the best-fit of the models for each size class:

    pkMods <- c("S" = "p ~ 1; k ~ 1", "L" = "p ~ 1; k ~ 1",
                "M" = "p ~ 1; k ~ 1", "XL" = "p ~ 1; k ~ HabitatType"
              )
    cpMods <- c("S" = "dist: exponential; l ~ Season; NULL",
                "L" = "dist: exponential; l ~ 1; NULL",
                "M" = "dist: exponential; l ~ 1; NULL",
                "XL" = "dist: exponential; l ~ 1; NULL"
              )

The `estgGenericSize` function produces `n` random draws of generic (i.e., cell-specific, not carcass-sepecific) detection probabilities for each of the possible carcass cell combinations across the selected SE and CP models across the size classes. `estgGeneric` is a single-size-class version of function and `estgGenericSize` actually loops over `estgGeneric`. The generic \(\hat{g}\) is estimated according to a particular search schedule. When we pass `averageSS` a full `data_SS` table like we have here, it will assume that columns filled exclusively with 0s and 1s represent search schedules for units and will create the average search schedule across the units.

    data_SS <- mock$SS
    avgSS <- averageSS(data_SS)

    gsGeneric <- estgGenericSize(nsim = 1000, days = avgSS,
                   modelSetSize_SE = pkmModSetSize,
                   modelSetSize_CP = cpmModSetSize,
                   modelSizeSelections_SE = pkMods,
                   modelSizeSelections_CP = cpMods
                 )

The output from `estgGeneric` can be simply summarized

    summary(gsGeneric)
    #> $L
    #>   Group    5%   25%   50%   75%   95%
    #> 1   all 0.377 0.409 0.429 0.454 0.485
    #>
    #> $M
    #>   Group    5%   25%   50%   75%   95%
    #> 1   all 0.352 0.385 0.407 0.429 0.457
    #>
    #> $S
    #>   Season    5%   25%   50%   75%   95%
    #> 1     SF 0.364 0.398 0.426 0.454 0.493
    #> 2     WS 0.299 0.330 0.356 0.385 0.421
    #>
    #> $XL
    #>   HabitatType    5%   25%   50%   75%   95%
    #> 1         HT1 0.318 0.348 0.370 0.392 0.421
    #> 2         HT2 0.331 0.362 0.382 0.406 0.437

or plotted.

    plot(gsGeneric)

## Mortality Estimation

When estimating mortality, detection probability is determined for individual carcasses based on the dates when they are observed, size class values, associated covariates, the searcher efficiency and carcass persistence models, and the search schedule. The carcass-specific detection probabilities (as opposed to the generic/cell-specific detection probabilities above) are therefore calculated before estimating the total mortality. Although it is possible to estimate these detection probabilities separately, they are best interpreted in the context of a full mortality estimation.

The `estM` function is the general wrapper function for estimating `M`, whether for a single size class or multiple size classes. Prior to estimation, we need to reduce the model-set-size complexed to just a single chosen model per size class, corresponding to the `pkMods` and `cpMods` vectors given above. To reduce the model set complexity, we can use the `trimSetSize` function:

    pkmModSize <- trimSetSize(pkmModSetSize, pkMods)
    cpmModSize <- trimSetSize(cpmModSetSize, cpMods)

In addition to the models and search schedule data, `estM` requires density-weighted proportion (DWP) and carcass observation (CO) data. If more than one size class is represented in the data, a required input is also the column names associated with the DWP value for each size class (argument `DWPCol` in `estM`):

    data_CO <- mock$CO
    data_DWP <- mock$DWP
    head(data_DWP)
    #>    Unit    S    M    L   XL
    #> 1 Unit1 0.70 0.70 0.60 0.60
    #> 2 Unit2 0.70 0.70 0.60 0.60
    #> 3 Unit3 0.56 0.56 0.48 0.48
    #> 4 Unit4 0.56 0.56 0.48 0.48
    #> 5 Unit5 0.70 0.70 0.60 0.60
    DWPcolnames <- names(pkmModSize)

    eM <- estM(data_CO = data_CO, data_SS = data_SS, data_DWP = data_DWP,
            frac = 1, model_SE = pkmModSize, model_CP = cpmModSize,
            unitCol = "Unit", COdate = "DateFound",
            SSdate = "DateSearched", sizeCol = "Size", nsim = 1000)

`estM` returns an object that contains the random draws of `pkm` and `cpm` parameters (named `pk` and `ab`, respectively) and the estimated carcass-level detection parameters (`g`), arrival intervals (`Aj`), and associated total mortality (`Mhat`) values for each simulation. These `Mhat` values should be considered in combination, and can be summarized and plotted simply:

    summary(eM)
    #>  median      5%     95%
    #> 1799.61 1640.27 1992.19
    plot(eM)

### Splitting Mortality Estimations

It is possible to split the resulting mortality estimation into components that are denoted according to covariates in either the search schedule or carcass observation data sets.

First, a temporal split:

    M_season <- calcSplits(M = eM, split_SS = "Construction",
                     split_CO = NULL, data_SS = data_SS, data_CO = data_CO
                 )
    summary(M_season)
    #>               X        5%       25%       50%       75%       95%
    #> Before 161.4177  587.5406  635.8216  668.5202  709.3488  773.2055
    #> After  264.5823 1006.0829 1075.6652 1133.5035 1184.7573 1266.1454
    #> attr(,"CL")
    #> [1] 0.9
    #> attr(,"vars")
    #> [1] "Construction"
    #> attr(,"type")
    #> [1] "SS"
    #> attr(,"times")
    #> [1]   0 127 349
    #> attr(,"class")
    #> [1] "splitSummary"
    plot(M_season)

Next, a carcass split:

    M_class <- calcSplits(M = eM, split_SS = NULL,
                 split_CO = "Split", data_SS = data_SS, data_CO = data_CO
               )
    summary(M_class)
    #>      X       5%      25%      50%       75%       95%
    #> C1 196 728.3490 783.7962 823.1507  866.7523  939.2328
    #> C2 230 861.2501 933.0555 976.5439 1023.1335 1109.5561
    #> attr(,"CL")
    #> [1] 0.9
    #> attr(,"vars")
    #> [1] "Split"
    #> attr(,"type")
    #> [1] "CO"
    #> attr(,"class")
    #> [1] "splitSummary"
    plot(M_class)

And finally, if two splits are included, the mortality estimation is expanded fully factorially:

    M_SbyC <- calcSplits(M = eM, split_SS = "Construction",
                split_CO = "Split", data_SS = data_SS, data_CO = data_CO
              )
    summary(M_SbyC)
    #> $C1
    #>                X       5%      25%      50%      75%      95%
    #> Before  80.19664 276.9710 306.6411 330.9697 354.7113 397.0564
    #> After  115.80336 419.1385 459.5814 495.0472 524.2927 568.9108
    #>
    #> $C2
    #>                X       5%      25%      50%      75%      95%
    #> Before  81.22107 279.6636 314.4793 339.1652 365.8375 408.9377
    #> After  148.77893 553.2627 599.5130 637.7397 674.3206 730.7033
    #>
    #> attr(,"CL")
    #> [1] 0.9
    #> attr(,"vars")
    #> [1] "Construction" "Split"
    #> attr(,"type")
    #> [1] "SS" "CO"
    #> attr(,"times")
    #> [1]   0 127 349
    #> attr(,"class")
    #> [1] "splitSummary"
    plot(M_SbyC)