Model Species Distributions by Estimating the Probability of Occurrence Using Presence-Only Data

Provides a likelihood-based approach to modeling species distributions using presence-only data. In contrast to the popular software program MAXENT, this approach yields estimates of the probability of occurrence, which is a natural descriptor of a species' distribution.


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install.packages("maxlike")

0.1-12 by Roeland Kindt, a year ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/maxlike


Authors: Richard Chandler [aut] , Andy Royle [aut] , Roeland Kindt [cre, aut] (ORCID:


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 3) license


Depends on raster

Suggests dismo


Suggested by AICcmodavg, BiodiversityR.

Enhanced by MuMIn.


See at CRAN