Statistical Analysis of Behavioural Data: An Approach Based on Time-Structured Models - Rilegato

Haccou, Patsy; Meelis, Evert

 
9780198546634: Statistical Analysis of Behavioural Data: An Approach Based on Time-Structured Models

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Presenting sophisticated statistical methods for analysing continuous-time records of behaviour, this book integrates recent developments in ethology, mathematical modelling, statistics, and technology. With numerous worked examples, the book leads the reader through the mathematical processes and their applications. The book will be incomparably useful to students and researchers in all areas of behavioural science.

The authors show how to analyse behavioural data starting with a basic model, the continuous-time Markov chain. They then indicate how and when this model can be generalized and demonstrate the suitability of their approach for detecting, for example, the effects of different experimental treatments or of changes in the social or physical environment. Competitive interactions such as predator-prey or host-parasite are also good subjects for this type of analysis.

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L'autore

Patsy Haccou, Research Fellow, Institute of Theoretical Biology, Leiden University. Evert Meelis, Lecturer in Biostatics, Institute of Theoretical Biology, Leiden University.

Contenuti

Introduction; Preliminary inspection of the observations; Analysis of time-inhomogeneity; Tests for exponentiality; Tests of sequential dependency properties; Simultaneous tests; Analysis based on a (semi)-Markov description; Examples of analyses based on continuous-time Markov chain modelling; Appendices; References; Author index; Subject index.

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9780198548508: Statistical Analysis Of Behavioural Data: An Approach Based on Time-structured Models

Edizione in evidenza

ISBN 10:  0198548508 ISBN 13:  9780198548508
Casa editrice: Oxford University Press, U.S.A., 1994
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