popn {secr} | R Documentation |
Encapsulate the locations of a set of individual animals.
An object of class popn
records the locations of a set of
individuals, together with ancillary data such as their sex. Often used
for a realisation of a spatial point process (e.g. homogeneous Poisson)
with known density (intensity). Locations are stored in a data frame
with columns ‘x’ and ‘y’.
A popn
object has attributes
covariates | data frame with numeric, factor or character variables to be used as individual covariates |
model2D | 2-D distribution ("poisson", "cluster", "IHP", "linear" etc.) |
Ndist | distribution of number of individuals ("poisson", "fixed") |
boundingbox | data frame of 4 rows, the vertices of the rectangular area |
The number of rows in covariates
must match the length of
x
and y
. See sim.popn
for more information
on Ndist
and model2D
.
The popn
class is used only occasionally: it is not central to spatially explicit capture recapture.
sim.popn
, plot.popn
, transformations