Population and Ecological Models
 
 
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  Competitive fitness  

 

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This application estimates the probability, relative to its competitors, that an individual will be the successful competitor when engaged in a contest for limited resources.

The model structure uses measured covariates to estimate each competitor's objective probabilities of winning a contest, but also uses Bayesian probability theory to assess each competitor's intrinsic and unmeasured (or unmeasurable) relative competitive advantage beyond that predictable by covariate data.

A pedagogical example of this model estimates the probability, relative to its siblings, that an offspring will be fed by a provisioning parent when that parent returns form a foraging excursion with food.

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