By default, mark-recapture models parameterise the survival process with survival probabilities. This is unfortunate, because logit-linear survival functions aren't time invariant, and you can't just exponentiate multistate transition probabilities like you can survival. Instead, we should... 1/2

We just updated our HMM blog by applying the backward sampling algorithm to recover the posterior distributions of latent states. Check it out! quantecol.com.au/blog/hmm-in-...

Quantecol is on Bluesky! We are a statistical consultancy specialised in (but not limited to) quantitative ecology. We also blog about ecological statistics, with our latest post being about fitting various ecological models in Stan. quantecol.com.au/blog/margina...