From 3e9ac28d5841429a2845b754afbacacee1427720 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Seb Dalgarno Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2024 09:20:20 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] minor change to adult female proportion estimation explanation --- vignettes/bbtutorial.Rmd | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/vignettes/bbtutorial.Rmd b/vignettes/bbtutorial.Rmd index 653aa7a..2fb4e99 100644 --- a/vignettes/bbtutorial.Rmd +++ b/vignettes/bbtutorial.Rmd @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ The adult female proportion can either be fixed or estimated from counts of cows If the user provides a value to `adult_female_proportion`, it is fixed. The default value is 0.65, which accounts for higher mortality of males [@smith_2004]. -If `adult_female_proportion = NULL`, the adult female proportion is estimated. +If `adult_female_proportion = NULL`, the adult female proportion is estimated from the data (i.e., `Cows ~ Binomial(adult_female_proportion, Cows + Bulls)`). By default, a biologically informative prior of `Beta(65,35)` is used. This corresponds to an expected value of 65%.