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Hello All,

I'm reworking an ORDMS model I had set up a while back in RMark (it ran fine back then but we made a mistake). I've made the following seemingly minor changes: added 5 unmonitored primary periods as columns of dots, and changed the previous "longer" time intervals with 1's for these unmonitored pp's.

Something like this:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
0 0 0 . . 0 0 0
0 0 0 . . 0 0 0
0 0 0 . . 0 0 0
0 0 0 . . 0 0 0
0 0 0 . . 0 0 0

We had 329 occasions (counting all secondary occasions withing primary periods), now we have 334 occasions. We had 328 intervals, now we have 333, right?

I can create the process data

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aves.process <- process.data(aves.data,model="ORDMS", time.interval=t.int, strata.labels=c("1","U"), begin.time=1979)

but not the design data.

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> aves.ddl <- make.design.data(aves.process, parameters=list(Psi=list(subtract.stratum=c("1","1"))))

When I try, I get this error:

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Error in rbind(design.data, add.design.data) :
  number of columns of matrices must match (see arg 2)

I can't find information on this error (other than this: http://www.phidot.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=2144&p=6593&hilit=number+of+columns+must+match#p6593) and I'm not sure what is going wrong here, i.e., I don't know where to start looking for the problem.
I would really appreciate some help.

Thank you,
Claudia

Claudia-

The problem is that it is expecting to have at least 2 secondary occasions per primary period. It is tripping on pent at interval 20 where it encounters two simultaneous 1's. Is this allowed in MARK? I was under the impression that you always had to have 2 secondary occasions per primary - essentially a 0 between each pair of 1's. Am I wrong about that? At the least I need to add some code to flag this as an error. If what you have is allowed in MARK then I'll need to modify the design data code. --jeff

1,
1,1,1,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,1,
1,1,

Ha! I'm not sure its allowed. I had thought about that last night when I first put the dots in for the unmonitored pp's... I wasn't sure if I needed to put a minimum number of secondary sessions or if just putting a "." for the pp would be enough.

I'll try putting two dots per unmonitored year and post my findings.

THANK YOU!
cp

YES! That did the trick!
THANK YOU SO MUCH JEFF!

Cheers,
cp