Equation 9 · Part 1 · Evolutionary Biology and Ecology in Practice: An Advanced Technical Guide
Symbol p
What this part means
actually defensible for the data in hand.
Its job in the formula
p is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
Their unified framework, built on the earlier Cormack-Jolly-Seber approach, treats and p as estimable quantities rather than assumed constants, and — critically — provides goodness-of-fit tests to check whether the assumption that all animals of a given class share the same and p is actually defensible for the data in hand.
The passage around this formula
Trap layout and spacing relative to home range. If trap spacing is much larger than the study animal’s home range, individuals near the grid edge are captured less often not because of any biological difference but because part of their range falls outside the grid — an edge effect that inflates apparent heterogeneity in p unless a buffer strip or explicitly spatial model absorbs it.
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