Estimates of Coefficient of Overlapping for Animal Activity Patterns

Provides functions to fit kernel density functions to data on temporal activity patterns of animals; estimate coefficients of overlapping of densities for two species; and calculate bootstrap estimates of confidence intervals. As in Ridout and Linkie (2009) .


Code for an R package based on R programs for estimating overlap of activity patterns posted by Martin Ridout at \url{https://www.kent.ac.uk/smsas/personal/msr/overlap.html}, which also has links to papers describing the theoretical background.

The routine for fitting circular kernel densities has been coded in C, so that bootstrap estimation of confidence intervals runs faster. New functions for parametric bootstrapping and for extracting confidence intervals have been added.

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install.packages("overlap")

0.3.9 by Liz A.D. Campbell, 3 years ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/overlap


Authors: Mike Meredith [aut] , Martin Ridout [aut] , Liz A.D. Campbell [aut, cre]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 3) license


Depends on suntools

Suggests sp


Imported by ct.

Suggested by camtrapR.


See at CRAN