Accurately Estimating Correlations Between Demographic Parameters: A Response to Riecke Et al. (2024).

ABSTRACT: Correlations between annual recovery and survival probabilities estimated from tag-recovery data have been used to quantify the demographic response of exploited populations to harvest. Deane et al. (2023) evaluated the bias and certainty of correlation parameters between recovery and survival probabilities estimated as random effects drawn from bivariate normal distributions relative to different prior distributions and sample size combinations. Riecke et al. (2024) observed that we incorrectly parameterized a precision matrix with Gamma priors and suggested using a Gamma(1,1) prior distribution for the standard deviations as an alternative. Riecke et al. (2024) provided results from tag-recovery models that estimate mortality hazard rates after fitting these models to tag-recovery datase

SUBMITTER: Deane CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11850757 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature