Statistical modelling of individual animal movement: an overview of key methods and a discussion of practical challenges

DOI10.1007/s10182-017-0302-7zbMath1443.62392arXiv1603.07511OpenAlexW2963978069MaRDI QIDQ1622168

Roland Langrock, Len Thomas, Ruth King, Toby A. Patterson, Paul G. Blackwell, Alison Parton

Publication date: 12 November 2018

Published in: AStA. Advances in Statistical Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1603.07511

zbMATH Keywords

stochastic differential equationtime serieshidden Markov modelOrnstein-Uhlenbeck processmeasurement errorstate-space model

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Time series, auto-correlation, regression, etc. in statistics (GARCH) (62M10) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models (62M05) Animal behavior (92D50)

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Uses Software

• WinBUGS
• ADMB
• JAGS
• AD Model Builder
• moveHMM

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