Modeling interdependent animal movement in continuous time

• Published in: Biometrics
• Main Authors: Niu, Mu, Blackwell, Paul G., Skarin, Anna
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Behavioural Sciences Biology; 10106 Probability Theory and Statistics; 10105 Computational Mathematics; Ecology; Hastings; Rangifer tarandus
• Online Access: https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/13547/; https://pub.epsilon.slu.se/13547/11/niu_m_et_al_160808.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...