I have what I hope is a simple question - is it possible to do time series
analysis on a small data set specifically only four data points? 

 

I have collected human threat data (mean number of threats per kilometre
walked/ survey) every 3 months in eight different sites (four with an
experimental element and four control sites). I am trying to determine the
best way to determine if there is a trend in the data though from what I've
seen of TSA, our data set is too small. I did a simple paired t-test on the
first and average of following three surveys that shows no significant
difference but it of course ignores the detail of the latter three surveys. 

 

I am not sure how to organize the data for importation into R. I've looked
at Crawley and one of Zuur publications but the TS data they work with is
much longer term and not over several (independent) sites.

 

Any advice, help, or direction is much appreciated!

 

Best,

Nicole

 

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Senior Research Associate

University of East Anglia

Norwich

Rwanda: +250 (0)783647398

Skype: nicolegross-camp

 

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