Which statistical test is recommended?

[#1]

Hello everyone,

I performed an experiment that tests whether a honey bee tends to turn in the same direction or change direction (right or left). The bee flies through a maze with turns, each time the bee chose to change direction I added 1 to the counter. If the direction was not changed, the counter was at 0. Each honey bee was tested 8 times (8 trials), a total of 60 bees from 2 treatment groups and 5 hives per group (6 bees per hive). I would like to know if there is a group that changes direction more often, or if there are changes between trials.

I reference to bee and the hive as a random effect (bee nests in hive)

Which statistical test is recommended to use?

Thanks, Erez

[#2]

Hi,

Because your response is a count, it should properly be modelled with a Poisson distribution. You also have random effects, so that would be a Generalized Linear Mixed Model, which is now possible in JMP Pro 17.

I suspect that Bee should be nested within Hive. There is a very similar example with nested random effects in the help documentation for JMP (Pro) 17.

I hope this helps.

Phil