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FISHERIES RESEARCH
卷 243, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2021.106062
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State-space models; Natural mortality; Profile likelihood; Local influence diagnostics; Model diagnostics
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资金
- Ocean Choice International Industry Research Chair programat the Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Graduate Scholarship
- Ocean Frontier Institute from the Canada First Research Excellence Fund
This article discusses the issue of the fixed assumption of natural mortality rate in stock assessment models, proposes new methods called M diagnostics to evaluate the impact of natural mortality rate on model fit, and emphasizes the importance of routinely checking M diagnostics when formulating assessment models.
Stock assessment models often require an external estimate of the natural mortality rate (M) that is usually assumed to be the same for all ages and years in the model. Although the fixed M assumption can be a major oversimplification, model diagnostics (e.g. profile likelihoods) that can help provide an understanding of how the choice of M affects model fit are often not used in practice. In the state-space setting, model diagnostics are especially complicated because of the complex dependencies in the data caused by process errors. To get a better understanding of the effect of broad changes in M across all ages and years on the state-space model fit, we develop new methods that provide profile likelihoods for individual data sources (surveys, landings, age compositions) by decomposing the state-space integrated likelihood. We also use local influence diagnostics to assess the influence of age and year specific changes in M on model fit. We jointly call these methods M diagnostics and apply them to a case study for American plaice (Hippoglossoides platessoides) on the Grand Bank of Newfoundland. The M diagnostics indicate that most input data sources are fit better with a higher M in recent years. We suggest that M diagnostics should be routinely examined when formulating an assessment model.
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