Output File Headers

This page describes the column headers for statistics files. These are output from Ranges analyses and can be loaded in the Statistics window.

Inter-location headings (all values)

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
LocE	Location easting
LocN	Location northing
Headings(degrees)	Heading angle from track to previous location

Inter-location headings (means for each range)

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
N	Number of locations
Average	Average heading of locations in degrees
SE+-	Standard Error of heading
GeoMean	Geometric mean heading
SE*/	Standard Error of geometric heading (when using logs you must multiply and divide rather than add and subtract the SE)

Inter-location distances (all values)

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
LocE	Location easting
LocN	Location northing
Distances(m)	Distance of location in metres
Dispersal(distx)	1 if animal has dispersed by this location, 1 otherwise (only when dispersal detector selected).
LQV1	as specified in the location file
... LQVn	as specified in the location file

NB. It is possible to reimport this csv file and then use distances as an LQV. This means that they can be used for analyses of, say, "only locations at least 100m from den".

Inter-location distances (means for each range)

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
N	Number of locations
Average	Average distance of locations (m)
SE+-	Standard Error of distance
GeoMean	Geometric mean distance
SE*/	Standard Error of geometric distance (when using logs you must multiply and divide rather than add and subtract the SE)

Inter-location times (all values)

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
LocE	Location easting
LocN	Location northing
Times(minutes)	Time between locations

Inter-location times (means for each range)

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
N	Number of locations
Average	Average time between locations in minutes
SE+-	Standard Error of time between locations
GeoMean	Geometric mean time between locations
SE*/	Standard Error of geometric time between locations (when using logs you must multiply and divide rather than add and subtract the SE)

Inter-location speeds (all values)

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
LocE	Location easting
LocN	Location northing
Speeds(km/h)	Speeds in kilometres per hour

Inter-location speeds (means for each range)

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
N	Number of locations
Average	Average speed
SE+-	Standard Error of speed
GeoMean	Geometric mean speed
SE*/	Standard Error of geometric speed (when using logs you must multiply and divide rather than add and subtract the SE)

Convex polygons

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
CentE	Easting for the range centre
CentN	Northing for the range centre
Span	Maximum distance between locations
Mean	Mean distance of locations from range centre
Median	Median distance of locations from range centre
Max	Maximum distance of locations from range centre
dummy	Unused variable
Core1	Core percentage
Area	Area of that core (ha)
Core2	Core percentage
Area	Area of that core (ha)
Core3	Core percentage
Area	Area of that core (ha)
etc

Concave polygons

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
Span	Maximum distance between locations
dummy	Unused variable
dummy	Unused variable
dummy	Unused variable
dummy	Unused variable
dummy	Unused variable
dummy	Unused variable
Core%	Core percentage, always 100 for concave polygons
Area	Area of that core (ha)

Neighbour-linkage

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
Core1	Core percentage
Area	Area of that core (ha)
Nuclei	Number of nuclei
Partial	Partial area
DivLocs	Simpson's index for location diversity
DivArea	Simpson's index for area diversity
Core2	Core percentage
Area	Area of that core (ha)
Nuclei	Number of nuclei
Partial	Partial area
DivLocs	Simpson's index for location diversity
DivArea	Simpson's index for area diversity
Core3	Core percentage
Area	Area of that core (ha)
Nuclei	Number of nuclei
Partial	Partial area
DivLocs	Simpson's index for location diversity
DivArea	Simpson's index for area diversity
Core1	Core percentage
Area	Area of that core (ha)
etc

Ellipses

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
CentE	Easting for the range centre
CentN	Northing for the range centre
MARAD	Radius of the major axis for the maximum core size selected
MIRAD	Radius of the minor axis for the maximum core size selected
THETA	Angle major axis is inclined from horizontal
X-VAR	Variance in eastings
Y-VAR	Variance in northings
COVAR	Covariance of eastings x northings
r-STAT	correlation coefficient
JTAsym	Standard deviation of the major axis divided by that of the minor axis.
Core1	Core percentage
Area	Area of that core (ha)
Core2	Core percentage
Area	Area of that core (ha)	etc

Harmonic mean contours

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
CentE	Arithmetic mean of eastings (range centre if with CentN)
CentN	Arithmetic mean of northings (range centre if with CentE)
Value	Density score at the central location
Spread	Range spread at central location
Dispersion	An index of dispersion of the distribution is given by the peak density value (at the range centre location) divided by the standard deviation of the density value across all the locations
Skew	An index of skew in the distribution is given by the Euclidean distance between the arithmetic mean centre and the location with the peak density value, divided by the standard deviation of the density value across all the locations
Kurtosis	Kurtosis of the location distribution
hRef	Not relevant to Harmonic means
hUsed	Not relevant to Harmonic means
Core1	Core percentage
Area	Area of that core (ha)
Core2	Core percentage
Area	Area of that core (ha)
Core3	Core percentage
Area	Area of that core (ha)
etc

Kernel contours

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
CentE	Arithmetic mean of eastings (range centre if with CentN)
CentN	Arithmetic mean of northings (range centre if with CentE)
Value	Density score at the central location
Spread	Range spread at central location
Dispersion	An index of dispersion of the distribution is given by the peak density value (at the range centre location) divided by the standard deviation of the density value across all the locations
Skew	An index of skew in the distribution is given by the Euclidean distance between the arithmetic mean centre and the location with the peak density value, divided by the standard deviation of the density value across all the locations
Kurtosis	Kurtosis of the location distribution
hRef	Not relevant to Harmonic means
hUsed	Not relevant to Harmonic means
xhRef	Multiple of hRef used (user defined or calculated by LSCV)
interval	Size (m) of lattice cells used in kernel estimation
Core1	Core percentage
Area	Area of that core (ha)
Core2	Core percentage
Area	Area of that core (ha)
Core3	Core percentage
Area	Area of that core (ha)
etc

Range overlap

overlap_ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
CentE	Arithmetic mean of eastings (range centre if with CentN)
CORE(%) !! Core percentage
ID1(%)	Percentage of overlapID range overlaps with range ID1 for this core
ID2(%)	Percentage of overlapID range overlaps with range ID2 for this core
ID3(%)	Percentage of overlapID range overlaps with range ID3 for this core
ID4(%)	Percentage of overlapID range overlaps with range ID4 for this core
etc
ID1(m2)	Area of overlap for overlapID range and range ID1 for this core
ID2(m2)	Area of overlap for overlapID range and range ID2 for this core
ID3(m2)	Area of overlap for overlapID range and range ID3 for this core
ID4(m2)	Area of overlap for overlapID range and range ID4 for this core
etc

Overlap of range on locations

overlap_ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
CentE	Arithmetic mean of eastings (range centre if with CentN)
CORE(%) !! Core percentage
ID1(%)	Percentage of overlapID range overlaps with locations in range ID1 for this core
ID2(%)	Percentage of overlapID range overlaps with locations in range ID2 for this core
ID3(%)	Percentage of overlapID range overlaps with locations in range ID3 for this core
ID4(%)	Percentage of overlapID range overlaps with locations in range ID4 for this core

Autocorrelations

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
SIpast1(h)	**TODO **
SIpast2(h)	**TODO **
Mins	**TODO **
1xMins	**TODO **
2xMins	**TODO **
3xMins	**TODO **
4xMins	**TODO **
5xMins	**TODO **
etc

Dynamic interactions

range1ID	First individual's identification number
AGE	First individual's age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	First individual's sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	First individual's month tracking started
YEAR	First individual's year tracking started
FOC-E	First individual's focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	First individual's focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
range2ID	Second individual's identification number
AGE	Second individual's age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Second individual's sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Second individual's month tracking started
YEAR	Second individual's year tracking started
FOC-E	Second individual's focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Second individual's focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
Nobs	Number of observed distances
AMEANObs	Arithmetic mean of observed distances
SUMObs	Sum of observed distances
SoSobs	Sum of Squares of observed distances
GMEANobs	Geometric mean of the observed distances
LSUMobs	Sum of logged observed distances
LSoSobs	Sum of squares of logged observed distances
MEDobs	Median Observed distance
Nran	Number of random locations
AMEANran	Arithmetic mean of random distances
SUMran	Sum of random distances
SoSran	Sum of Squares of random distances
GMEANran	Geometric mean of the random distances
LSUMran	Sum of logged random distances
LSoSran	Sum of squares of logged random distances
MEDran	Median random distance
JacobsAMEAN	Jacob's index of arithmetic mean distances
JacobsGMEAN	Jacob's index of geometric mean distances
JacobsMED	Jacob's index of median distances

Location-point distances

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
Nobs	Number of observed distances
AMEANObs	Arithmetic mean of observed distances
SUMObs	Sum of observed distances
SoSobs	Sum of Squares of observed distances
GMEANobs	Geometric mean of the observed distances
LSUMobs	Sum of logged observed distances
LSoSobs	Sum of squares of logged observed distances
MEDobs	Median Observed distance
Nran	Number of random locations
AMEANran	Arithmetic mean of random distances
SUMran	Sum of random distances
SoSran	Sum of Squares of random distances
GMEANran	Geometric mean of the random distances
LSUMran	Sum of logged random distances
LSoSran	Sum of squares of logged random distances
MEDran	Median random distance
JacobsAMEAN	Jacob's index of arithmetic mean distances
JacobsGMEAN	Jacob's index of geometric mean distances
JacobsMED	Jacob's index of median distances

Range centre spacing

Nobs	Number of observed distances
MEANobs	Arithmetic mean of observed distances
SUMobs	Sum of observed distances
SoSobs	Sum of Squares of observed distances
SEobs	Standard Error of observed distances
AREA	Area of range
MEANest	Estimated mean distance
SEest	Standard error of estimated distances
t-obs/est	Student's t-test for regular spacing of estimated observations
Nran	Number of random locations
MEANran	Arithmetic mean of random distances
SUMran	Sum of random distances
SoSran	Sum of Squares of random distances
SEran	Standard error of random distances
t-obs/ran	Student's t-test for regular spacing of random estimates

Habitat in a map rectangle

W-edge	Western edge
E-edge	Eastern edge
S-edge	Southern Edge
N-edge	Northern edge
Area	Area of assessed rectangle
HabitatGroup1	% of the area made up of this habitat
HabitatGroup2	% of the area made up of this habitat
HabitatGroup3	% of the area made up of this habitat
etc

Habitat in a map circle

cent-E	Western edge
cent-N	Circle centre northing
radius	radius of circle in metres
Area	Area of circle
HabitatGroup1	% of the area made up of this habitat
HabitatGroup2	% of the area made up of this habitat
HabitatGroup3	% of the area made up of this habitat
etc

Habitat content of ranges

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
Core1	Core percent
Area	Area of core
HabitatGroup1	% of the area made up of this habitat
HabitatGroup2	% of the area made up of this habitat
HabitatGroup3	% of the area made up of this habitat
etc
Core2	Core size
Area	Area of core 2
HabitatGroup1	% of the area made up of this habitat
HabitatGroup2	% of the area made up of this habitat
HabitatGroup3	% of the area made up of this habitat
etc

Habitat points within ranges

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
Core1	Core percent
Area	Area of core 1
sites	Number of sites within core 1
Core2	Core percent
Area	Area of core 2
sites	Number of sites within core 2
etc

Habitat at locations

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
N-locs	Number of locations
HabitatGroup1	% of the locations (or ellipse area if error ellipses) of this habitat
HabitatGroup2	% of the locations (or ellipse area if error ellipses) of this habitat
HabitatGroup3	% of the locations (or ellipse area if error ellipses) of this habitat
etc

Habitat preference in ranges

ID	Individual identification number
AGE	Age (e.g. 1 = Juvenile, 2 = Yearling, 3 = Adult)
SEX	Sex (e.g. 1 = Male, 2 = Female)
MONTH	Month tracking started
YEAR	Year tracking started
FOC-E	Focal site Easting (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
FOC-N	Focal site Northing (e.g. nest, den, trap site etc)
Core1	Core percent
Area	Area of core
HabitatGroup1	% of the area made up of this habitat
HabitatGroup2	% of the area made up of this habitat
HabitatGroup3	% of the area made up of this habitat
etc
Core2	Core size
Area	Area of core 2
HabitatGroup1	% of the area made up of this habitat
HabitatGroup2	% of the area made up of this habitat
HabitatGroup3	% of the area made up of this habitat
etc
N-locs	Number of locations
HabitatGroup1	% of the locations (or ellipse area if error ellipses) of this habitat
HabitatGroup2	% of the locations (or ellipse area if error ellipses) of this habitat
HabitatGroup3	% of the locations (or ellipse area if error ellipses) of this habitat
etc

Resource area dependence

Habitat	The habitat group name
Core	The core %
ExclusionStatus	Habitat Excluded or not
rObserved	Pearson's r for observations
bObserved	Slope of regression for observations
SEbObserved	Standard error of slope for observations
cObserved	Area at y-axis intercept for observations
0-Core%Observed	Number of observed habitat cores with zero core area
0-Habitat%Observed	Number of observed habitat cores without this habitat in the core
rMeanRandom	Mean Pearson's r for randomly placed range cores
rMedianRandom	Median Pearson's r for randomly placed range cores
z	z for for randomly placed range cores
+r95%CL	lower confidence limit for random r if normally distributed
r95%CL	upper confidence limit for random r if normally distributed
Beyondr	number of random r values more extreme than the observed r
bMeanRandom	Mean slope for randomly placed range cores
SEbMeanRandom	Mean standard error of slope for randomly placed range cores
cMeanRandom	Mean area at y-axis intercept for random rs
0-habitat%Random	number of random habitat cores without this habitat in the core

Kaplan Meier survival

File	The name of the analysis survival file
Dates	The dates set for the analysis
Interval	the interval number
Ending	the end date of the interval
Present At Start	Individuals present at start of interval
Present At End	Individuals present at end of interval
Censor Dead	Individuals died during interval
Censor Lost	Individuals lost during interval
Alive at End	Individuals alive at end of interval
Added During	Individuals added during interval
Survival Total	Individuals survived for interval
Survival Decrease	Decrease in individuals for interval
Variance Greenwood	Greenwood variance for interval
Variance Cox/Oakes	Cox/Oakes variance for interval
Tag days	Total number of days for all individuals