Multi-scale properties of random walk models of animal movement: Lessons from statistical inference

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 468, Issue 2141, 2012, Pages 1428-1451

  Kawai, Reiichiro ^a   Petrovskii, Sergei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Animal movement; Parameter estimation; Random walk

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; FISHER INFORMATION MATRIX; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PARETO PRINCIPLE;

ANIMAL MOVEMENT; FISHER INFORMATION; GAUSSIAN RANDOM WALK; GAUSSIANS; HUMAN MOTIONS; JOINT ESTIMATION; LOCAL ASYMPTOTIC NORMALITIES; MODEL PARAMETERS; MULTISCALES; RANDOM SEARCHES; RANDOM WALK; RANDOM WALK MODELS; RIGOROUS ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL INFERENCE; TARGET LOCATION;

RANDOM PROCESSES;

EID: 84861502084     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2011.0665     Document Type: Conference Paper

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