Modeling interdependent animal movement in continuous time

• Published in: Biometrics
• Main Authors: Niu, Mu, Blackwell, Paul G., Skarin, Anna
• Other Authors: Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Applied Mathematics; General Agricultural and Biological Sciences; General Immunology and Microbiology; General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology; General Medicine; Statistics and Probability; Hastings; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/biom.12454; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fbiom.12454; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/biom.12454

Summary This article presents a new approach to modeling group animal movement in continuous time. The movement of a group of animals is modeled as a multivariate Ornstein Uhlenbeck diffusion process in a high‐dimensional space. Each individual of the group is attracted to a leading point which is g...