Dead or gone? Bayesian inference on mortality for the dispersing sex
Julia A Barthold, Craig Packer, Andrew J Loveridge, David W Macdonald, Fernando Colchero
This paper develops a Bayesian model to estimate male mortality in species with natal dispersal by imputing dispersal states from uncertain records, showing it works well in simulations and real data.
bioRxiv · Nov 10, 2015