Hitchhikers’ guide to analysing bird ringing data

Andrea Harnos; Tibor Csörgő; Péter Fehérvári

doi:10.1515/orhu-2017-0020

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Hitchhikers’ guide to analysing bird ringing data

Ornis Hungarica

Volume 25 (2017): Issue 2 (December 2017)

By: Andrea Harnos, Tibor Csörgő and Péter Fehérvári

Open Access

|Feb 2018

Abstract

This paper is the third part of our bird ringing data analysis series (Harnos et al. 2015a, 2016a) in which we continue to focus on exploring data using the R statistical environment. Here, we give a short description of missing data patterns, then handling and visualization techniques that help simultaneously explore the data and the structure of missing values. We try to emphasize that missing data can seriously distort the results of the analyses, therefore the conclusions drawn.

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/orhu-2017-0020 | Journal eISSN: 2061-9588 | Journal ISSN: 1215-1610

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Language: English

Page range: 141 - 156

Submitted on: Nov 29, 2017

Accepted on: Dec 18, 2017

Published on: Feb 14, 2018

Published by: MME/BirdLife Hungary

In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services

Publication frequency: 2 issues per year

Keywords:

missing data pattern,

exploration of incomplete data

Related subjects:

Life sciences,

Life sciences, other

© 2018 Andrea Harnos, Tibor Csörgő, Péter Fehérvári, published by MME/BirdLife Hungary
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Volume 25 (2017): Issue 2 (December 2017)