#Beverton-Holt stock-recruitment model of Alaskan pink salmon #Data are from Quinn and Deriso, p. 105 #Check of the reference prior of Millar (CJFAS, 2002) ############################################################# model BH_Pink; { #Convert data to millions for(i in 1:N) { s[i] <- S[i]/1000 } ######Jeffreys prior##### #Zero's trick for reference prior on b #NOTE 1: Constraining to [0,1] to reproduce shape of Fig. 2 of Millar (2002) #NOTE 2: Fig. 2 of Millar (2002) is not normalized - so y-axis differs from WinBUGS density plot y-axis b~dunif(0,1) for (i in 1:N) {why[i] <- s[i]/(1+b*s[i]) } prior.b <- sd(why[]); phi <- -log(prior.b) zero <- 0; zero ~ dpois(phi); } ###Data### list(N=30, S=c(1418,2835,1957,4033,2750,2891,3098,2001,3215,2443,2561,2834,2859,2295, 1880,1579,1373,4183,2984,5059,2669,3949,4219,4290,3976,8799,2856,4289, 2892,4577)) ) ###Inits### list(b=0.5)