[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Thanks for your comments. Here is some further explanation of my data.
> I observed a group of lemurs twice per week for about five months. I
> observed each animal of 12 for one 25 minute period over the day during
> which at every 20 second interval I recorded:
>
> 1) The behaviour the animal was doing ( e.g. supine lie=55)
How many different behaviors did you make counts of and do you really expect your
manipulation to affect all of them?
> 2) The weather ( I catogarized this my self (e.g Sun 3 very sunny, Sun
> one no sun shining into cage_)
Is this basically an ordinal sunniness scale then?
> 3) The time slot ( for example 8.00- 8.30 = Time slot 1, 8.31- 9.00
> =time slot 2)
Could you tell us more about what the time slot was?
> 4)The day
>
> 5) The animal ( 1-12 e.g Cetus=2)
>
> I had two groups 1-6 family group, 7-12 Control group.
>
> After 8 weeks of no manipulation, I placed small mesh between the
> family group cage whilst leaving the control group alone. After 2 weeks
> this was substituted for large mesh, then after two weeks two groups
> were formed male and female (thus animals were let into the cages with
> one another).
How long after the two groups were formed did you continue to make daily
observations? That is, what was the total number of days the animals were
observed?
You have a large number of observations nested under a small number of animals.
You might think of some kind of time series analysis for specific behaviors. I
will be interested to see what advice other people have to offer.
Chuck
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