title: A note on simplifying likelihoods for site occupancy models.
abstract: We show how a simple reparameterization can reduce the number of parameters that need to be estimated by numerical maximum likelihood in site occupancy models. Three examples are provided.
authors: Institute of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent Canterbury, Kent CT2 7NF, UK. B.J.T.Morgan@kent.ac.uk
authors: Byron J T
authors: BJ
authors: Morgan
authors: David J
authors: DJ
authors: Revell
authors: Stephen N
authors: SN
authors: Freeman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D000835:Animals, Wild; D001699:Biometry; D016013:Likelihood Functions; D015233:Models, Statistical; D011156:Population Density; D020308:Songbirds; D014454:Uganda