I have published several papers on Bayesian state-space modeling
of fisheries dynamics, including surplus production models and
age-structured models.
More recent work investigates the sensitivity of Bayes estimates to
informative priors.
See my list of selected publications.
WinBUGS code
for fitting a state-space surplus production model.
(See Meyer, R. and R. B. Millar. (1999) BUGS in Bayesian stock assessment.
Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 56: 1078-1087.)
WinBUGS code
for fitting a state-space age-structured sequential population model.
(See Meyer, R. and R. B. Millar. (2000) Bayesian state-space modeling of
age structured data: fitting a model is just the beginning.
Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 57: 43-50.)
WinBUGS code
for assessing the sensitivity to the priors used in
the state-space surplus production model.
(See R. B. Millar. (2004)
Sensitivity of Bayes estimators to hyper-parameters,
with an application to maximum yield from fisheries.
Biometrics 60: 536-542.)