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I have 6 sites with 3 sites as constant food in a feeder and 3 sites as pulsed food in a feeder. For the pulsed food sites, there are days with food and without food.So, I have 2 treatments: constant, pulsed with food, pulsed without food.

I counted birds at 2 locations(near and far from feeder) at each site multiple times. I want to know if treatment predicts the difference in the number seen near and far. So I want to know, is there a significant difference between the differences?

I've thought about doing this problem in a mixed models approach: (number of birds) ~ treatment*location + (1|site)

or

(number of birds near - number of birds far) ~ treatment + (1|site)

Any advice/guidance on this?

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  • $\begingroup$ Is "constant" a treatment? If yes, why do I count 3 treatments rather than the 2 you mentioned? $\endgroup$ – Isabella Ghement May 15 at 22:13
  • $\begingroup$ Sorry, I didn't explain that well. I have 2 treatments - constant and pulsed. But, for analysis, I have broken the pulsed into pulsed with no food and pulsed with food. I do surveys on days where the pulsed has no food and days the pulsed does have food. $\endgroup$ – Rachael May 16 at 16:28

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