create.parameter.df {MetaLandSim}

Create parameter data frame

Description

This function creates a parameter data frame, using parameter values computed with the application available in the papers of Moilanen (1999) and ter Braak and Etienne (2003).

Usage

create.parameter.df(alpha, x, y, e)

Arguments

alpha

Alpha parameter

x

x parameter

y

y parameter

e

e parameter

Details

It is highly recommended that the user reads both papers, as well as the help files.

Value

Returns a data frame, with the same format as the one returned by parameter.estimate for the methods 'Rsnap_1' and 'Rsnap_x'.

Author(s)

Frederico Mestre and Fernando Canovas

References

Moilanen, A. (1999). Patch occupancy models of metapopulation dynamics: efficient parameter estimation using implicit statistical inference. Ecology, 80(3): 1031-1043.

ter Braak, C. J., & Etienne, R. S. (2003). Improved Bayesian analysis of metapopulation data with an application to a tree frog metapopulation. Ecology, 84(1): 231-241.

See Also

parameter.estimate

Examples

param2 <- create.parameter.df(alpha=0.5, x=0.1, y=5, e=0.1)

param2

#      par_output
#alpha        0.5
#x            0.1
#y            5.0
#e            0.1