contactTest: Determine if Observed Contacts are More or Less Frequent than...

In contact: Creating Contact and Social Networks

Description

This DEFUNCT function was used to determine if tracked individuals in an empirical dataset had more or fewer contacts with other tracked individuals/specified locations than would be expected at random. The function works by comparing an empirically-based contactDur.all or contactDur.area function output (emp.input) to the contactDur.all or contactDur.area output generated from randomized data (rand.input).

Usage

contactTest(...)

Arguments

...	Any input will return the error message: "'contactTest' is now defunct. Please consider using another contact-comparison function instead (e.g., contactCompare_chisq, contactCompare_mantel, etc.)."

Value

Always returns the error message: "'contactTest' is now defunct. Please consider using another contact-comparison function instead (e.g., contactCompare_chisq, contactCompare_mantel, etc.)."

contact documentation built on May 17, 2021, 5:07 p.m.