NaNs produced for SE, z and P(>|z|) in occupancy model

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Joshua Jones

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Jul 18, 2021, 1:14:43 PM7/18/21
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I'm trying to create an occupancy model for the beetle family Curculionidae. My data is spread across 378 sites and I have 795 recorded presences. The mean number of observations per site is 3.02 and 357 sites have at least one detection. I've run a simple model with the following code:
 occu(formula = ~days # detection formula
                                    ~acd,  # occupancy formula
                 data = umf,
                 se = TRUE,
                 engine = "C")
When I go to get the summary I get the following warning message:
Warning message:
In sqrt(diag(vcov(obj, fixedOnly = fixedOnly))) : NaNs produced
And the summary output looks as follows:

Call:
occu(formula = ~days ~ acd, data = umf, se = TRUE, engine = "C")

Occupancy:
            Estimate  SE   z P(>|z|)
(Intercept)   0.0551 NaN NaN     NaN
acd           5.5144 NaN NaN     NaN

Detection:
            Estimate    SE      z P(>|z|)
(Intercept)    1.154 0.722  1.598   0.110
days          -0.107 0.237 -0.452   0.651

AIC: 1410.39 

I'm pretty new to occupancy modelling so would anyone be able to tell me why I am getting NaNs?

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