The SimSurvey package has been designed
to facilitate simulations of sample surveys of spatially-correlated
age-structured populations. Sample surveys have become an integral part
of the population monitoring programs led by many fisheries
organizations and, as with any other monitoring program, good survey
design and analysis is a critical prerequisite for obtaining reliable
results. It has long been recognized that simulations are a useful tool
for optimizing such surveys and, as such, several frameworks have been
proposed and applied to try and answer the common question of “how much
sampling is enough?”. The SimSurvey
package builds upon previous frameworks by increasing the complexity of
the simulated population to reflect the dynamic structure seen in fish
populations and extends the accessibility of the underlying simulation
by wrapping it in an open-source R package.
Install from CRAN:
install.packages("SimSurvey")Or install the development version from GitHub:
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("PaulRegular/SimSurvey")pkgdown site:
https://paulregular.github.io/SimSurvey/
PLOS ONE journal article:
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0232822