Nest survival models

[catferreira]

I'm analysing nest survival data and I've got several cases similar to this:

i = 1 j = 3 k = 3 fate = 1

which the help file states that it" is invalid because the nest was observed both present and destroyed on day 3." Could anybody tell me if this means program MARK doesn't consider these rows (even if I should introduce them) or if I shouldn't include this data at all?
Any help is welcome.
Thank you very much.
Catarina Ferreira

[Jochen]

Catarina,
this means that you should consider changing your input file before running MARK at all. j should be the last day the nest was checked and not destroyed, sometimes called "last day active", thus j<k. j=k is only true for successful nests.
Jochen