Acoustic spatial capture-recapture study on vocalising bowhead whales

<h1>Acoustic spatial capture-recapture study on vocalising bowhead whales</h1> <p>Contains the code and data used for the analysis of the case study data and run the simulation study.&nbsp;<br>The results of this study have been peer-reviewed and published (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13253-023-00563-0) and also appear in Chapter 2 and 3 of the PhD thesis "Advancements in methods for estimating the abundance of marine megafauna using novel sampling techniques" by Felix T Petersma.&nbsp;<br>We provide some information in support of the files presented here; however, for extensive background we kindly refer you to the publication.</p> <p>Most of the functionality of the model fitting is contained in the 'ascrRcpp'-package.&nbsp;<br>This package has been included pre-built and can be installed using the file 'ascrRcpp_1.0.tar.gz'.<br>Once this package is installed, all scripts included in this location should run fine, given that all other packages that are used will be installed as well.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>