Hello, I am a researcher in sleep and circadian rhythms who is having much trouble deciding on proper statistical analyses. Before I state my question, I provide a brief synopsis of the looming problem; I am interested in activity bout distributions across a 24 hr day. In addition to looking at the number of activity bouts across the day, I am also interested in the duration of each activity bout. My current method of analyzing numbers and durations of activity bouts involves; 1) documenting the number of activity bouts for each condition (alcohol or water drinker) and then, using repeated measures ANOVA to account for three days of activity recording 2) displaying the number of each bout duration (expressed in 15 minute bins) in a frequency histogram, that again, documents differences in bout number between conditions. My concern lies in the size of the frequency bins for the bout durations. My advisor suggested 15 min bins, my co-advisor suggests 60 min, I think 10 min (from *Quantitative analysis of the age-related fragmentation of hamster 24-h activity rhythms* by Plamen D. Penev, Phyllis C. Zee, and Fred W. Turek) which leads me to my question: IS THERE A MORE CONTINUOUS WAY OF ANALYZING ACTIVITY DURATION DIFFERENCES THAT DOES NOT INVOLVE "COUNTING"?
If you would like more insight on my experiment in order to have a more accurate understanding of the problem, please do not hesitate to contact me. Sincerely, Allison Brager -- Graduate Student Department of Biological Sciences Kent State University [[alternative HTML version deleted]] ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.