Table 2 Summary table for estimator quality of relative abundance (10% trend: \({\lambda }_{N}/{\lambda }_{0.9N}\) and 20% trend: \({\lambda }_{N}/{\lambda }_{0.8N}\)) obtained from three Bayesian hierarchical models (BernP, BP, PP).

From: Simulation-based assessment of the performance of hierarchical abundance estimators for camera trap surveys of unmarked species

HRA (km2)

N

\(\rho\)

|Relative Bias|≤ 0.5

10% trend

20% trend

BernP

BP

PP

BernP

BP

PP

0.65 (closure)

480

0.70

0.66

0.76

0.75

0.83

0.88

0.87

0.95

0.64

0.53

0.72

0.84

0.78

0.88

240

0.70

0.74

0.81

0.62

0.90

0.95

0.83

0.95

0.61

0.67

0.56

0.84

0.84

0.83

0.65

480

0.70

0.53

0.56

0.58

0.82

0.81

0.78

0.95

0.52

0.47

0.55

0.73

0.63

0.77

240

0.70

0.47

0.48

0.49

0.69

0.69

0.65

0.95

0.42

0.36

0.42

0.66

0.48

0.63

2.61

240

0.70

0.53

0.49

0.53

0.73

0.73

0.72

0.95

0.62

0.36

0.60

0.78

0.58

0.70

120

0.70

0.58

0.56

0.52

0.71

0.53

0.66

0.95

0.37

0.36

0.42

0.68

0.42

0.64

10.38

120

0.70

0.54

0.34

0.53

0.62

0.53

0.63

0.95

0.50

0.43

0.39

0.63

0.44

0.56

60

0.70

0.46

0.45

0.39

0.68

0.58

0.59

0.95

0.31

0.34

0.26

0.52

0.39

0.39

41.58

60

0.70

0.53

0.31

0.45

0.61

0.47

0.58

0.95

0.46

0.37

0.38

0.62

0.50

0.51

30

0.70

0.42

0.37

0.29

0.58

0.42

0.46

0.95

0.32

0.37

0.19

0.52

0.45

0.34

Median

0.52

0.44

0.50

0.69

0.56

0.65

  1. Cells display the proportion of simulation replicates that satisfy |Relative Bias|≤ 0.5.