Ecological Statistics. I came for the charismatic megafauna and stayed for the problematic megamodels. Skeptic.
Joined July 2015
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May 17
Cluster SCR model for perfectly aggregated and cohesive groups where you observe individual ID but not group ID. Pretty sure. 😄
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I have TWO graduate openings (one M.S. and one Ph.D.) in @The_SPEC_Lab , both within our mountain lion program. 🦁 Deadline to apply is June 7:
MS position in noninvasive monitoring strategies: tinyurl.com/3xc7we3d
PhD position in density estimation:
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29 Oct 2025
Added a more rigorous description of my N-prior data augmentation approach
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11 Sep 2025
Matern Type III repulsive point processes in NIMBLE. Pretty cool approach and does not require a birth-death process for estimation, so it is fast and mixes well. Can add SCR observation model.
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27 Aug 2025
Okay MIT needs us to do "internship" (broadly defined) can be simply a collaborative project that is publishable. Anyone in industry wants to collaborate?
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13 Aug 2025
Figured out how this data augmentation approach to is related to that presented by Schofield and Barker (2014). Theirs can be specified with bugs code, which is very slick! As coded, mine runs 2x as fast with better ESS/iteration. Cool stuff. More formal details soon.
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28 Jun 2025
The "Marginal Unmarked Trilogy"
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20 Jun 2025
Marginal version of SMR with interspersed marking and sighting and all sample types is pretty slick.
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20 Jun 2025
Split out all my SMR models marginalizing over latent IDs with Herliansyah et al. (2024) efficiency trick into their own repository. Premarked, interspersed marking/sighting, natural marks. single and multi session, Dcovs, habitat masks. Count prior data augmentation.
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20 May 2025
Top 5 things I want to write up from my Github repositories. Someone hire me for a while and we can pump these out. Will describe some more later.
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15 May 2025
Put some more work into the data aug approach I've been using. Have 3 ways to do the N/z updates now. I think "count prior data augmentation" is a good name for it (besides data benaugmentation 😆). I've sloppily said this is RJMCMC sometimes in the past, but it is def data aug
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18 Apr 2025
Pop simulator with hab and D effects on repro, survival, and movement. Females only. Grey: 95% HR. Survival: red dots adult deaths, gold, 1 or more dependent deaths. Movement, red is adult HR relocation, gold subadult dispersal. Reproduction: gold indicates a new litter.
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18 Apr 2025
Last call for expressions of interest in a Quantitative Ecology post-doc based mostly in South Africa. If you are interested, drop Lourens and me a line 👇
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15 Apr 2025
We are hiring an Assistant/Associate Prof of Quantitative Ecology! I'm on the Search Committee for this one. If you have any interest in the position & want to learn more about living in this v. cool part of the country, pls reach out!
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12 Apr 2025
Now have multi catch and single catch traps using competing hazards observation model. M0, Mb with and without spatial density covariates
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7 Apr 2025
The main problem with single catch traps is that you block more captures in high D areas than low D areas and underestimate Dcov betas using regular SCR. Can see that effect here.
6 Apr 2025
Latent ID SCR approach to Efford 2004 Oikos single catch traps modeling observed captures conditioned on the caps that would have happened if traps did not fill up or prevent captured individuals from being captured at other traps on the same occasion.
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