Statistical measures for defining an individual's degree of independence within state-dependent dynamic games

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rands, Sean A ^a,b,c   Johnstone, Rufus A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; GAME; NONHUMAN; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; EVOLUTION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM; ENERGY METABOLISM; GAMES, EXPERIMENTAL; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL;

EID: 33750226024     PISSN: 14712148     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-6-81     Document Type: Article

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