Mason Fidino

Please reconsider including the number of sampling days as a covariate when estimating detection probabilities in occupancy models

A really helpful function I wrote to make the MCMC output from NIMBLE or JAGS so much easier to work with for model predictions and plotting

How to interpret and make plots with a Bayesian implementation of the Rota et al. (2016) multi-species occupancy model for interacting species

Using the mapview package to quickly investigate spatial coordinates in R

A simple static occupancy model in NIMBLE

A somewhat hacky solution to getting a progress bar when Bayesian fitting models in parallel with NIMBLE

Two ways to write autologistic multistate occupancy models in `JAGS`

Approximate the area under two curves in R

An introduction to multistate occupancy models. A static three-state model for one species.

A gentle introduction to an integrated occupancy model that combines presence-only and detection/non-detection data, and how to fit it in `JAGS`

Nested indexing is for more than just random effects. How to use nested indexing to speed up your Bayesian models and answer new ecological questions.

So, you don't have enough data to fit a dynamic occupancy model? An introduction to auto-logistic occupancy models.

Using the `mgcv` package to create a generalized additive occupancy model in `R`

Linear regression: Using maximum likelihood to estimate the mean and standard deviation of a normally distributed random variable

The normal distribution