Set of simulated data to use with the IFM parameter estimation functions. The data were generated using the code provided in "details".

This dataset loads several objects:

'sim.area', 'sim.det.20', 'sim.distance', 'z.sim', 'z.sim.20' and 'z.sim.20.fa'.

Format

sim.area: Vector of the areas for each site; here, 100 sites.
sim.det.20: 100 x 10 x 3 array corresponding to nsites x nyears x nvisits. Data simulated with year-specific detection probabilities equal to 0.4,0.6,0.2,0.9,0.3,0.4,0.6,0.2,0.9,0.3.
sim.distance: nsite x nsite distance matrix.
z.sim: nyear x nsite occupancy data generated with perfect detection.
z.sim.20: nyear x nsite occupancy data generated with perfect detection with approximately 20% of data missing at random.
z.sim.20.fa: nyear x nsite occupancy data containing false absences, which can be used to explore the bias of ifm.missing.MCMC and ifm.naive.MCMC when there is imperfect detection.

These datasets were created using the code included in Examples.