Statistical Analysis of Behavioural Data
An Approach Based on Time-structured Models
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Product details:
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Date of Publication 17 March 1994
- ISBN 9780198548508
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages414 pages
- Size 235x155x23 mm
- Weight 633 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 halftone, line figures, tables 0
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Short description:
Now available in paperback, this is a how-and-why-to-do-it book. It presents sophisticated statistical methods for analysing continuous-time records of behaviour. This approach is explicity designed to handle sequential or simultaneous acts where neither their duration nor sequence is predetermined. There are eight chapters and many worked examples, leading the reader through the mathematical processes and their applications. Students and researchers in all fields of
behavioural science will find this book useful for planning and performing data analysis.
Long description:
Now available in paperback, this is a how-and-why-to-do-it book. It presents sophisticated statistical methods for analysing continuous-time records of behaviour, aiming to integrate recent developments in ethology, mathematical modelling, statistics, and technology. These new methods are explicitly designed to handle sequential or simultaneous acts where neither the duration nor the sequence of the acts is predetermined, which is often the case if the time scale
on which behaviour is studied is relatively short. 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.
There are eight chapters and many worked examples, leading the reader through the mathematical processes and their applications. Students and researchers in all fields of behavioural science wil find this book incomparably useful for planning and performing data analysis.
'Even the chapters, which are marked by the authors as being mathematically difficult, can be understood when the book is carefully read ... an excellent text book for seminars which consider the analysis of behavioural data sets. My opinion is that the authors have done a good job. This book can be recommended to students and colleagues who are interested in the analysis of time structured data.'
Jürgen Tomiuk, Abt. für Klinische Genetik der Univ. Tübingen, Ethology Vol. 95, No. 2, 1993
Table of Contents:
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
