Changelog
Source:NEWS.md
spAbundance 0.1.2
- Added in the
independent.betas
tag into thepriors
list for certain multi-species model types to allow for specifying an independent prior on the species-specific random effects as opposed to treating species-specific effects as random effects. This can be useful under certain circumstances when the distribution of effects across species may not be adequately represented by a Gaussian distribution. This tag is available for the following functions:lfMsAbund
(Gaussian only),sfMsAbund
(Gaussian only), andsvcMsAbund
. - Fixed a bug in zero-inflated Gaussian latent factor abundance models (
lfMsAbund
).
spAbundance 0.1.1
CRAN release: 2024-03-22
- Updated the
neonDWP
data set after NEON announced an error in some of the bird point count data (more information here. Also updated the associated vignette that uses these data. - Updated the
msAbund()
function to make it compatible withspOccupancy::updateMCMC()
, which allows for picking up a model run where it left off instead of having to restart the MCMC from scratch. I am planning to allow this functionality for all model fitting functions inspAbundance
in a future version. - Updated all model fitting functions to fix a potential error that could arise in the calculation of Rhat that could lead to the function failing under certain circumstances. This was particularly the case in multi-species models with large amounts of rare species.