z-class {FLEDA}R Documentation

Class "z" for total mortality

Description

This class encapsulates results of a z method.

Creating Objects from the Class

Objects of this classe should be created with a call to the contructor function z(object, agerng, ...), where object must be an object of class "FLQuant", agerng is the age range of fully expoited ages and ... can be used to pass trim arguments to the creator funtion.

Slots

zy
Object of class "FLQuant".
za
Object of class "FLQuant".
zc
Object of class "FLQuant".
agerng
Object of class "numeric".

Methods

show
signature(object = "z"): Display object briefly.
summary
signature(object = "z"): Displays the average total mortality computed by age and cohort.
t.test
signature(object = "z"): Tests the similarities between the estimates by year and by cohort.
xyplot
signature(object = "z"): Lattice xyplot method.

Details

Considering C_{ay}, the catch in numbers at age a=1,...,A per year y=1,...,Y, obtained e.g. from the catch.n slot of a "FLStock" object, the computation of z is performed by year Z_{y}, by age Z_{a} and by cohorts Z_{c}, for a defined age range (agerng):

Consider a:a in agerng, n=#a and

L_{ay}=log{frac{C_{ay}}{C_{a+1,y+1}}}

than

Z_{y}=frac{sum_{a}{L_{ay}}}{n}

Z_{a}=frac{sum_{y}{L_{ay}}}{Y}

Z_{c}=frac{sum_{c}{L_{ay}}}{n}

If agerng is not provided, the method will try to guess this argument by finding the ages that have less than 10% negative logs along the time series. This procedure may have unexpected side effects !

See Also

FLQuant-class, trim, logr-class

Examples

data(ple4)
# compute Z
ple4z <- z(catch.n(ple4), agerng=3:6)
# tune plot
ttl <- list("Total mortality (Z) for Plaice in IV", cex=1)
xttl <- list(cex=0.8)
yttl <- list("Mean Z", cex=0.8)
# plot z by age along years
xyplot(data~year, data=ple4z@zy, type="l", main=ttl, ylab=yttl, xlab=xttl)
# plot z by age along ages
xyplot(data~age, data=ple4z@za, type="l", main=ttl, ylab=yttl, xlab=xttl)
# plot z by cohort along years
xyplot(data~cohort, data=ple4z@zc, type="l", main=ttl, ylab=yttl, xlab=xttl)

[Package FLEDA version 1.4-2 Index]