Suggestions of improvement

[annescharf]

Hi @jmsigner and @marcosci,
here some suggestions:

Suggested improvements:

• in all other Apps the output is a .csv, which is easier to directly open as a table. If there is no good reason to save it as a .txt, maybe consider changing it to .csv?

• in “model_summary.txt”: please add "DOF of diffusion" and "DOF of speed" to the table, these will indicate how good the estimates are in the table “ctmm_select_summary.txt”. These values are also in the model output.
  in the documentation:

• "DOF": degrees of freedom for estimating the area. It represents the effective sample size for calculating the area. It also represents the number of times the animal crossed its range during the observation time (see ctmm_select_summary.txt).

• "DOF of diffusion": degrees of freedom for estimating the diffusion (see ctmm_select_summary.txt)

• "DOF of speed": degrees of freedom for estimating the speed (see ctmm_select_summary.txt)

• in “ctmm_select_summary.txt”:
  in the documentation:

• column “unit”: the parameter name and its unit

  • area (units): represents the estimated area.
  • t[position] (units): is the time it takes the animal to cross its home range, and also represents the time lag when the locations get time independent (i.e. when they stop being autocorrelated in time)
  • τ[velocity] (units): represents the time lag when the locations get velocity independent (i.e. when they stop being autocorrelated in velocity). Useful to know for e.g. step selection models
  • speed (units/units): estimated speed throughout the observation period
  • diffusion (square kilometers/day): estimated value of how much the animal moved during the observed period

Thanks!