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Parameter estimation was conducted using a Bayesian MCMC approach in WinBUGS 1.4.3 (Lunn et?al. 2000; http://www.selleckchem.com/products/Neratinib(HKI-272).html Spiegelhalter et?al. 2007). See Appendices?S1 and S2 (Supporting Information) for WinBUGS code and likelihood expressions. Vague priors were used on all parameters except for c, for which the prior distribution was informative [�� (157, 13��5)], corresponding to empirical estimates of mean?=?0��92 with standard error?=?0��02 (Barlow & Forney 2007). Normal priors with mean?=?0 and large variance (e.g. 10?000) were used for intercept and slope coefficients (e.g. ��s). Uniform (0,100) distributions were used for �� and standard deviations of random effects (). For each model, MCMC runs consisted of two chains with a burn-in of 10?000 samples, and a posterior distribution based on 30?000 samples for each chain (60?000 samples total); this was generally sufficient to achieve low Monte Carlo errors ( conduct multi-model inference (see overview by Link & Barker 2010). We used Deviance Information Criteria (DIC), which allows for selection of Bayesian hierarchical models (Spiegelhalter et?al. 2002). DIC is defined as , where is the posterior mean model deviance, is the model deviance for the posterior parameter means, and pD (interpreted as the effective number of parameters) is ?. DIC can be problematic in certain situations (Spiegelhalter et?al. 2007), but it is easily calculated from MCMC output (and is available as a standard output in WinBUGS), and it remains the standard tool for hierarchical model selection as evidenced by its widespread use and coverage by recent reviews and textbooks (e.g. Cressie et?al. 2009; Congdon 2010; Link & Barker 2010). The number of possible joint models (i.e. combinations of density, detection and group size model components) was too large to practically evaluate in entirety, so we took a modular approach to model selection. We first conducted model selection separately for detectability (distance data) and group size components of the model (i.e. treated them as separate models). Detectability and group size submodels with ��DIC (difference in DIC between that of model k and the lowest DIC)