gambin

Authors Thomas J. Matthews, Colin S. Gillespie, Michael Krabbe Borregaard, Karl Ugland

Last update 16 April 2021

Copyright license GNU General Public License, version 3.0

Software version identifier PACKAGES.rds, 1.0, 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, 2.3.0, 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.3, 2.4.4, 2.5.0

Description

Fits unimodal and multimodal gambin distributions to species-abundance distributions from ecological data, as in in Matthews et al. (2014) <doi:10.1111/ecog.00861>. 'gambin' is short for 'gamma-binomial'. The main function is fit_abundances(), which estimates the 'alpha' parameter(s) of the gambin distribution using maximum likelihood. Functions are also provided to generate the gambin distribution and for calculating likelihood statistics.

Cites work

The gambin model provides a superior fit to species abundance distributions with a single free parameter: evidence, implementation and interpretation

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