Multi-state model error

[anacjesus]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if you could help me, since I am stuck with my data format right now.

I am analyzing a 28 years/occasions of data for grey seal females (297 individuals).

I am inserting data into MARK for this and a thousand of parameters is generated. Thus, I make them all constant and end up with a smaller number. However, when I try to run the current model, MARK crashes and the error is "Encounter history was too short for the number of occasions specified".

03 encounter history examples of my data are:
/* 1 */ 000000000A0AA00000000000000 1;
/* 2 */ 000000000000000000000EEEE00 1;
/* 11 */ 0000000000000B000000A0A0000 1;

I read some few people had the same error, which they later found it was because their number of occasions was higher than the number of individuals: which is totally not my case.

I would very much appreciate your thoughts on this!
Thank you!

[cooch]

Hi everyone,

I was wondering if you could help me, since I am stuck with my data format right now.

I am analyzing a 28 years/occasions of data for grey seal females (297 individuals).

I am inserting data into MARK for this and a thousand of parameters is generated. Thus, I make them all constant and end up with a smaller number. However, when I try to run the current model, MARK crashes and the error is "Encounter history was too short for the number of occasions specified".

03 encounter history examples of my data are:

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/* 1 */ 000000000A0AA00000000000000 1;
/* 2 */ 000000000000000000000EEEE00 1;
/* 11 */ 0000000000000B000000A0A0000 1;


I read some few people had the same error, which they later found it was because their number of occasions was higher than the number of individuals: which is totally not my case.

I would very much appreciate your thoughts on this!
Thank you!

If this is a literal cut-and-paste from your .inp file, the problem is perhaps because you mention 28 occasions, when in fact your encounter history has only 27 occasions.

[anacjesus]

YES!!! Thank you! Sometimes you just need someone to point the obvious!