Body Temperature Series of Beaver 2

SUMMARY:

Reynolds (1994) describes a small part of a study of the long-term temperature dynamics of beaver Castor canadensis in north-central Wisconsin. Body temperature was measured by telemetry every 10 minutes for four females, but data from a one period of less than a day for each of two animals is used there.

DATA DESCRIPTION:

The beav2 data frame has 100 rows and 4 columns. This data frame contains the following columns:

ARGUMENTS:

day
Day of observation (in days since the beginning of 1990), November 3-4.
time
Time of observation, in the form 0330 for 3.30am
temp
Measured body temperature in degrees Celcius
activ
Indicator of activity outside the retreat

SOURCE:

P. S. Reynolds (1994) Time-series analyses of beaver body temperatures. Chapter 11 of
Lange, N., Ryan, L., Billard, L., Brillinger, D., Conquest, L. and Greenhouse, J. eds (1994) Case Studies in Biometry. New York: John Wiley and Sons.

SEE ALSO:

EXAMPLES:

beav2 <- beav2 # make local copy
attach(beav2)
beav2$hours <- 24*(day-307) + trunc(time/100) + (time%%100)/60
plot(beav2$hours, beav2$temp, type = "l", xlab = "time",
     ylab = "temperature", main = "Beaver 2")
usr <- par("usr"); usr[3:4] <- c(-0.2, 8); par(usr=usr)
lines(beav2$hours, beav2$activ, type = "s", lty = 2)
attach(beav2)
temp <- rts(temp, start = 8+2/3, frequency = 6, units = "hours")
activ <- rts(activ, start = 8+2/3, frequency = 6, units = "hours")
acf(temp[activ==0]); acf(temp[activ==1]) # also look at PACFs
ar(temp[activ==0]); ar(temp[activ==1])
arima.mle(temp, xreg = rep(1, length(temp)), model = list(ar=0.75))
arima.mle(temp, xreg = cbind(1, activ), model = list(ar=0.75))
beav2.gls <- gls(temp ~ activ, data = beav2,  corr = corAR1(),
                 method = "ML")
summary(beav2.gls)
summary(update(beav2.gls, subset = 6:100))