Computes some basic summary statistics from a contact analysis.
Usage
conSummary(ltraj)
Value
A dataframe that can be used to summarize contact phases.
Arguments
ltraj
an object of the class ltraj which should be output from the function conPhase.
Details
This function is used following the conPhase function. It computes the following summary statistics from the contact analysis:
- total number of fixes in the dataset
- total number of fixes deemed a contact
- number of contact phases
- longest phase duration
- mean phase duration
- median phase duration
- no. of phase where the duration is only one fix (i.e., instantaneous contacts)
References
Long, JA, Webb, SL, Harju, SM, Gee, KL (2022) Analyzing Contacts and Behavior from High Frequency
Tracking Data Using the wildlifeDI R Package. Geographical Analysis. 54, 648--663.