I’d like to examine the relationship between time and distance moved by animals. Rather than use the serial\consecutive steps, I was thinking of calculating all the pair-wise distances and differences in time between all observations.
For examples if I have 4 observations:
1. XY: 10, TIME: 0
2. XY: 15, TIME: 4
3. XY: 30, TIME: 14
4. XY: 33, TIME: 27
I would derive the following points:
1. ΔXY:5, ΔTIME:4
2. ΔXY:20, ΔTIME:14
3. ΔXY:23, ΔTIME:27
4. ΔXY:15, ΔTIME:10
5. ΔXY:18, ΔTIME:23
6. ΔXY:3, ΔTIME:13
Does that make sense, any references? are there particular relationships associated with movement modes or behaviour?