Summary: | Johnston and Butterworth (2009) implement four models (Resident, Sabbatical, Tourist and Migrant) to estimate parameters for the C1 and C3 substocks, including the probability of interchange between them, using a Bayesian approach which takes account of capture-recapture information from photo-id data. This estimator generally captures the underlying parameter values reasonably, though with a tendency to estimate r too low and K too high. Interchange rates are also reasonably estimated, both when the true rates are low and high. In the latter case, abundance estimates in terms are lower. Here a range of Operating Models (OMs) are defined and used to test the Sabbatical estimator
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