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Bayesian Model to Estimate Population Trends from Counts Series
A wildlife population-trend package in low-maintenance mode.
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◆Current state
popbayes fits Bayesian trends to animal population count series that mix ground counts, aerial counts and expert estimates. The visible history is short and slow: three releases across four years, with the most recent, 1.3, swapping usethis for cli in error messages and tidying the website. The substantive work in the window is 1.1, which reorganised how format_data() handles a dataset.
◆Where it's heading
Development has settled into maintenance carried largely by outside contributors, with the current release consisting of a dependency swap and message fixes from two different contributors. The one release with real design work, 1.1, moved format_data() from operating on a whole dataset to operating per count series, letting different series of the same species carry different conversion assumptions. Nothing since has changed the modelling surface.
◆Prediction
The entries do not support a confident prediction beyond further contributor-driven maintenance; there is no visible signal of new modelling work.
◆Recent moves
- 3mo ago
popbayes 1.3
Swaps usethis for cli in error message construction and fixes fit_trend() messages. Contributor housekeeping with no change to what the package models.
View source ↗ - 3y ago
popbayes 1.2
A tibble-handling fix in format_data() and documentation typos. Consistent with the long maintenance stretch since 1.1.
View source ↗ - 4y ago
popbayes 1.1
The one release in the window with design work: format_data() moves to operating per count series, so different series of the same species can carry different field methods and conversion settings, and the expert-knowledge category is renamed from G to X to stop colliding with ground counts.
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