Package: palm Type: Package Title: Fitting Point Process Models via the Palm Likelihood Version: 1.1.7 Date: 2026-08-07 Authors@R: person(given = "Ben C.", family = "Stevenson", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "ben.stevenson@st-andrews.ac.uk") Depends: R (>= 3.0.0), Rcpp (>= 0.11.5) Imports: gsl, methods, minqa, mvtnorm, R6 LinkingTo: Rcpp Suggests: testthat Description: Functions to fit point process models using the Palm likelihood. First proposed by Tanaka, Ogata, and Stoyan (2008) , maximisation of the Palm likelihood can provide computationally efficient parameter estimation for point process models in situations where the full likelihood is intractable. This package is chiefly focused on Neyman-Scott point processes, but can also fit the void processes proposed by Jones-Todd et al. (2019) . The development of this package was motivated by the analysis of capture-recapture surveys on which individuals cannot be identified---the data from which can conceptually be seen as a clustered point process (Stevenson, Borchers, and Fewster, 2019 ). As such, some of the functions in this package are specifically for the estimation of cetacean density from two-camera aerial surveys. License: GPL URL: https://github.com/b-steve/palm LazyData: TRUE Encoding: UTF-8 RoxygenNote: 7.3.2 Config/pak/sysreqs: make libgsl0-dev Repository: https://b-steve.r-universe.dev Date/Publication: 2026-08-19 13:00:01 UTC RemoteUrl: https://github.com/b-steve/palm RemoteRef: HEAD RemoteSha: 08b824ffdba6a9b361856dad7a2a7ca738958bfd NeedsCompilation: yes Packaged: 2026-09-18 08:49:40 UTC; root Author: Ben C. Stevenson [aut, cre] Maintainer: Ben C. Stevenson