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RE: st: Collapsing data to daily data
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Nick Cox <[email protected]>
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"'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>
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RE: st: Collapsing data to daily data
Date
Wed, 2 Mar 2011 20:09:13 +0000
By (not) being able to move easily, perhaps. It's perhaps a surrogate for what slows the typical deer down, a lot. Or hides too much food. A Green's function, perhaps.
As John Tukey said, if I recall correctly, one of the great things about statistics is that you get to play in everyone's back yard (meaning, learn about their strange and fascinating stuff).
Nick
[email protected]
Brigham Whitman
Previous research has indicated that a snow depth over of 38 cm (15
in) plays a role in increasing deer mortality and prompting deer
migrations to winter yards. How the deer themselves measure the snow
depth, I do not know.
On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> Interesting.
>
> Not pertinent really, but still intriguing: 38 cm (well, 381 mm) looks to me like 15 inches in disguise. Whether deer use metric or non-metric units in reacting to snow is no doubt a subject for future research. Perhaps this means that there is some device that takes up to 15 inches' worth of snow, after which it is deemed to overflow.
Brigham Whitman
>
> Yes, at first I wasn't going to collapse my data for a survival
> analysis. It is a huge data set (68 individual white-tailed deer with
> a total of 72,000 data points with up to 4 data points per day per
> deer), but Stata and R could handle it fine. But my advisors for my
> thesis said I should collapse the data, and another man I contacted
> who has done the same analysis suggested I should collapse it, so I
> did. That man had mentioned something about how I might inadvertently
> be increasing the amount of time each animal is at risk if I use
> multiple locations per animal per day. I can't say that I totally
> understand why that is. It does make more sense to me now to look at
> daily data, and I've incorporated a 'Cumulative days of snow depth
> over 38 cm' variable and running averages for certain variables over
> 14 and 28 day moving windows, which I am not sure how I would do if I
> hadn't collapsed the data. But yes, I should have a better idea of
> why I would "coarsen" my data and lose some of that accuracy. Thank
> you for the input.
>
>
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