I have a robust design study where a few deaths (not many) have occurred during the secondary, closed period (and yes, I know that is not supposed to happen, but it is ecology after all). I received a suggestion to censor these records. I have two questions on this:
1. What exactly would censoring do in this context? My understanding is that censoring will result in the known detections being used for parameter estimation, while adjusting for mortalities. Is this correct?
2. How would I code this in RMark?
Thanks much!