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Table 3 The total computation time and computing resources used to produce the final parameter estimates for the maximum likelihood and Bayesian MCMC approaches

From: Comparing maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods for fitting hidden Markov models to multi-state capture-recapture data of invasive carp in the Illinois River

Method

Computation time

Parallelized

Resources

Maximum likelihood

34 min

No

1 CPU

Bayesian MCMC

7 h 16 min

Yes

4 CPUs

  1. The Bayesian MCMC approach required more time and resources, but equivalent parameter estimates with lower but still acceptable effective sample sizes could likely have been achieved with a reduced number of total sampling iterations to lower the run time
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Movement Ecology

ISSN: 2051-3933