Dynamic social networks based on movement

DOI10.1214/16-AOAS970zbMATH Open1454.62395arXiv1512.07607OpenAlexW2962843138WikidataQ57200046 ScholiaQ57200046MaRDI QIDQ512424FDOQ512424

Authors: Henry R. Scharf, Bailey K. Fosdick, Devin S. Johnson, Josh M. London, John W. Durban, Mevin B. Hooten 

Publication date: 24 February 2017

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Network modeling techniques provide a means for quantifying social structure in populations of individuals. Data used to define social connectivity are often expensive to collect and based on case-specific, ad hoc criteria. Moreover, in applications involving animal social networks, collection of these data is often opportunistic and can be invasive. Frequently, the social network of interest for a given population is closely related to the way individuals move. Thus telemetry data, which are minimally-invasive and relatively inexpensive to collect, present an alternative source of information. We develop a framework for using telemetry data to infer social relationships among animals. To achieve this, we propose a Bayesian hierarchical model with an underlying dynamic social network controlling movement of individuals via two mechanisms: an attractive effect, and an aligning effect. We demonstrate the model and its ability to accurately identify complex social behavior in simulation, and apply our model to telemetry data arising from killer whales. Using auxiliary information about the study population, we investigate model validity and find the inferred dynamic social network is consistent with killer whale ecology and expert knowledge.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.07607

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zbMATH Keywords

hidden Markov modelanimal movement\textit{Orcinus orca}dynamic social networkGaussian Markov random field

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Markov processes: estimation; hidden Markov models (62M05) Random fields; image analysis (62M40) Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Social networks; opinion dynamics (91D30)

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