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Area of Science:

  • Ecology
  • Social Network Analysis
  • Statistical Modeling

Background:

  • Network-based diffusion analysis (NBDA) quantifies social influence on behavior spread.
  • Traditional NBDA methods do not incorporate spatial population structure.
  • Spatial data collection in wild populations is increasingly feasible due to technological advances like bio-logging.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To present a spatial extension of NBDA that models population structure.
  • To enable the analysis of diffusion data where individual spatial locations are known.
  • To integrate environmental covariates into spatial diffusion analyses.

Main Methods:

  • Estimating inter-individual associations from mean inter-point distances in spatial point patterns.
  • Utilizing a Bayesian framework for analysis, allowing incorporation of prior knowledge.
  • Developing an R package, spatialnbda, for association matrix construction and spatial NBDA.

Main Results:

  • The spatial NBDA method can successfully model diffusion with spatial structure.
  • Environmental covariates can be effectively included in the analysis.
  • The R package facilitates the application of the method.

Conclusions:

  • The spatial extension of NBDA provides a valuable tool for analyzing spatially structured diffusion data.
  • This method is particularly useful when only spatial association data is available.
  • The spatialnbda R package makes this advanced analysis accessible to researchers.