# Provenance and reuse

Data status: **synthetic, generated for this course using a fixed R seed**. These data support learning and are unsuitable for claims about animal production or the source authors’ findings. All values and the teaching design are invented.

Topic inspiration: [Christensen, Andersen, Skovbo & Skovgård (2022)](https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2022.105676).

The original open paper followed 10 groups (42 horses) for eight summer weeks, using half-hourly images and weekly horsefly traps; its methods model daily shelter proportions with repeated observations within group. Our 12-group/28-day dataset uses an invented daily group-mean duration and a daily horsefly index. It is observational and is not reconstructed from the paper’s tables.

Source review date: 6 October 2026. The instructor retains the private generation script and source evaluation. No original raw dataset was acquired; an open article is not automatically an open dataset. The case can be used immediately without waiting for author contact. If original raw data become available, obtain the correct reuse licence and metadata, then recheck allocation, hierarchy, outcome definitions and the model.

These newly generated materials are supplied for use and adaptation in this course; retain the synthetic-data label and source attribution. This does not change rights/licences of the cited papers or any original datasets. Papers are linked, not bundled; their own licences apply.