MARK 4.1 released

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MARK 4.1 released

Postby cooch » Sun Aug 08, 2004 3:06 pm

An August 3, 2004 build - you can download it from Gary's site, or here at

http://www.phidot.org/software/mark/download/

Basic "new bits" are:

July, 2004 -- Version 4.1 -- Female Lark Bunting picture

:arrow: A new Visual Objects compiler was used to create the interface on July 14, 2004. The new compiler uses a different set of DLL files. Therefore, uninstall MARK and then install this new version. The old executable files will not work with the new DLL files, and vice versa. This new version seems to be more stable. As usual, please let me know of any bugs you encounter.

:arrow: The simulation capability was added for the robust design models. Unfortunately, specification of the inputs for these models is tricky, in that for the second and following primary sessions, you do not actually specify the population size, but rather the number of new recruits. For the closed population models where N is in the likelihood, you must specify the size of the initial population and the numbers of new recruits as actual values, regardless of the link function for the rest of the parameters. For the Huggins closed captures models, a separate tab window requests the initial population size, and the numbers of new recruits.

:arrow: AICc values were incorrectly computed for models with deviance equal zero when a new value of c-hat was applied. This bug is now fixed, but will not correct the AICc values in results files that have already been affected by this problem. To check to see if the AICc value is correct, recompute the model's estimates and verify that the old and new values of AICc are the same. If not, then you will have to recompute the estimates for all the models to get back the correct AICc values.


Related to the first item, its usually a good idea to first uninstall your current version of MARK prior to install a new build.
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