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24 * ! Sun, 7/29/2018, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM CC-West 117
Assisting Natural Resource Agencies with Improved Inferences on Ecological Processes — Topic Contributed Papers
Section on Statistics and the Environment, Survey Research Methods Section
Organizer(s): Brian R Gray, US Geological Survey
Chair(s): Katharine Banner, Montana State University
2:05 PM Methods for Estimating Trend in Indicators Monitored with Complex Survey Designs

Leigh Starcevich, Western EcoSystems Technology Inc. (WEST)
2:25 PM Modeling Abundance of Multiple Species Using Latent Regression Tree Algorithms

Haoyu Zhang, Kansas State University; Trevor Hefley, Kansas State University; Brian R Gray, US Geological Survey; Kristin Bouska, USGS
2:45 PM A Multiseason Site Occupancy Model for Use When Sites Are Not Revisited Among Seasons
Brian R Gray, US Geological Survey; Darryl I MacKenzie, Proteus Wildlife Research Consultants; Richard A Erickson, US Geological Survey
3:05 PM Examining the Trade-Off Between Computational Gains and Reduced Flexibility When Marginalizing Discrete Latent States in Bayesian Population Models
Charles Yackulic; Michael Dodrill, USGS
3:25 PM Exploiting the Latent Beta Distribution for Modeling Plant Abundance

Kathryn Irvine, US Geological Survey
3:45 PM Floor Discussion