To cite smam in publications use:

Hu, C., Pozdnyakov, V., Yan, J. (2026). smam: Statistical Modeling of Animal Movement. R package version 0.7.3 https://github.com/ChaoranHu/smam

Pozdnyakov, V. , Meyer, T. , Wang, Y. and Yan, J. (2014), On modeling animal movements using Brownian motion with measurement error. Ecology, 95(2): 247--253.<doi:10.1890/13-0532.1>

Pozdnyakov, V., Elbroch, L., Labarga, A., Meyer, T., and Yan, J. (2017) Discretely observed Brownian motion governed by telegraph process: estimation. Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability, 21: 907--920.<doi:10.1007/s11009-017-9547-6>.

Yan, J., Chen, Y., Lawrence-Apfel, K., Ortega, I. M., Pozdnyakoc, V., Williams, S., and Meyer, T. (2014) A moving-resting process with an embedded Brownian motion for animal movements. Population Ecology. 56(2): 401--415.<doi:10.1007/s10144-013-0428-8>

Pozdnyakov, V., Elbroch, L.M., Hu, C. et al. On Estimation for Brownian Motion Governed by Telegraph Process with Multiple Off States. Methodol Comput Appl Probab 22, 1275–1291 (2020).<doi:10.1007/s11009-020-09774-1>

Hu, C., Elbroch, L.M., Meyer, T., Pozdnyakov, V. and Yan, J. (2021), Moving-resting process with measurement error in animal movement modeling. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.<doi:10.1111/2041-210X.13694>

Corresponding BibTeX entries:

  @Manual{,
    title = {{smam}: Statistical Modeling of Animal Movement},
    author = {Chaoran Hu and Vladimir Pozdnyakov and Jun Yan},
    note = {R package version 0.7.3},
    year = {2026},
    url = {https://github.com/ChaoranHu/smam},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {On modeling animal movements using Brownian motion with
      measurement error},
    author = {Vladimir Pozdnyakov and Thomas Meyer and Yubo Wang and
      Jun Yan},
    journal = {Ecology},
    year = {2014},
    volume = {95},
    number = {2},
    pages = {247--253},
    url =
      {https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/13-0532.1},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Discretely observed Brownian motion governed by telegraph
      process: Estimation},
    author = {Vladimir Pozdnyakov and L. Mark Elbroch and Anthony
      Labarga and Thomas Meyer and Jun Yan},
    journal = {Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability},
    year = {2019},
    volume = {21},
    pages = {907--920},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-017-9547-6},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {A moving-resting process with an embedded Brownian motion
      for animal movements},
    author = {{Jun Yan} and Yung-wei Chen and Kirstin Lawrence-Apfel
      and Isaac M. Ortega and Vladimir Pozdnyakov and Scott Williams
      and Thomas Meyer},
    journal = {Population Ecology},
    year = {2014},
    volume = {56},
    number = {2},
    pages = {401--415},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s10144-013-0428-8},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {On Estimation for Brownian Motion Governed by Telegraph
      Process with Multiple Off States},
    author = {Vladimir Pozdnyakov and L. Mark Elbroch and Chaoran Hu
      and Thomas Meyer and Jun Yan},
    journal = {Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability},
    year = {2020},
    volume = {22},
    pages = {1275--1291},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s11009-020-09774-1},
  }

  @Article{,
    title = {Moving-Resting Process with Measurement Error in Animal
      Movement Modeling},
    author = {Chaoran Hu and L. Mark Elbroch and Thomas Meyer and
      Vladimir Pozdnyakov and Jun Yan},
    journal = {Methods of Ecology and Evolution},
    year = {2021},
    url = {https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13694},
  }