Hi everyone,
I'm currently fitting a Multi-State Jolly-Seber model on immature green turtles CMR dataset with 6 states (3 size classes on 2 sites).
These turtles spend several years on their feeding grounds before leaving definitively. I'm interesting in the time spent on foraging grounds before migration.
In the derived parameters of the MSJS model, I have two estimates of the residence time from 2 different methods but the values are very different and I don't know what is the best method to use in the context of this study.
According to the Mark help, the method 2 assumes no time or state effects in the model.
For the method 1, the estimate is really different compared to the method 2.
Does anyone know the difference between these two methods ?
I don't know either how can I interpret the ingress and egress time. If anyone has some clues for that, I will be grateful !
Thank you very much by advance.
Pierre