Choosing an appropriate sample interval for instantaneous sampling

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 11-17

  Engel, Jürgen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b NONE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Choice of sample interval; Computer simulation; Instantaneous sampling; Observational method; Oryx dammah; Sampling technique

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; SAMPLING; TECHNIQUE; TIME;

ANIMALIA; ANTELOPE; MAMMALIA; ORYX DAMMAH;

SAMPLING; SAMPLING INTERVAL; SCIMITAR ORYX;

EID: 0030273517     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0376-6357(96)00005-8     Document Type: Article

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