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Implements the "mle" FB4 fitting strategy, which estimates the proportion of maximum consumption (p-value) and its uncertainty by maximising the log-normal likelihood of observed final weights. Both an R backend (fit_fb4_mle) and a faster TMB/C++ backend (execute_mle_tmb) are supported. Confidence intervals are derived from the Hessian (delta method) and optionally from a likelihood profile (compute_likelihood_profile).

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No return value; this page documents the maximum likelihood estimation strategy functions. See individual function documentation for return values.

References

Deslauriers, D., Chipps, S.R., Breck, J.E., Rice, J.A. and Madenjian, C.P. (2017). Fish Bioenergetics 4.0: An R-based modeling application. Fisheries, 42(11), 586–596. doi:10.1080/03632415.2017.1377558

Kristensen, K., Nielsen, A., Berg, C.W., Skaug, H. and Bell, B.M. (2016). TMB: Automatic differentiation and Laplace approximation. Journal of Statistical Software, 70(5), 1–21. doi:10.18637/jss.v070.i05