initBanterModel {banter}

Initialize BANTER model

Description

Initialize a BANTER model with event data.

Usage

initBanterModel(x)

Arguments

x

a data.frame of events. Every row is a unique event. Must have columns named event.id and species. All other columns will be used as predictor variables for the BANTER event classifier model.

Value

a banter_model object without any detector models.

Note

Values in the column species are passed through the make.names function on creation to ensure they don't include invalid characters.

Author(s)

Eric Archer [e-mail]

References

Rankin, S. , Archer, F. , Keating, J. L., Oswald, J. N., Oswald, M. , Curtis, A. and Barlow, J. (2017), Acoustic classification of dolphins in the California Current using whistles, echolocation clicks, and burst pulses. Marine Mammal Science 33:520-540. doi:10.1111/mms.12381

Examples

data(train.data)
# initialize BANTER model with event data
bant.mdl <- initBanterModel(train.data$events)
bant.mdl