Work to do prior to the workshop beginning

A pencil and paper exercise fitting a detection function to a histogram of perpendicular detection distances.
Author

Eric Rexstad

Published

April 24, 2025

This exercise is not computer-based. Therefore, you won’t find anything in the RStudio/Cloud account related to Practical 1. Instead, below find links to an instruction file and a sketch of the data to complete. Print the sketch and use it to fit a detection function to the data and complete the exercise. The HTML file contains the instructions explaining how to estimate duck nest density from your figure..