Modeling interdependent animal movement in continuous time

• Published in: Biometrics
• Main Authors: Niu, M., Blackwell, P. G., Skarin, A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2016
• Subjects: Hastings; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/101235/; https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/101235/1/biom12454.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1111/biom.12454

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 generally...