Modeling time series of animal behavior by means of a latent-state model with feedback

Biometrics

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 807-815

  Zucchini, Walter ^a   Raubenheimer, David ^b   MacDonald, Iain L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Animal behavior; Feedback; Feeding behavior; Hidden Markov models; Latent state; Mixed model; Motivational state

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; FEEDBACK; FEEDING; TIME SERIES;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR; ANIMAL FEEDING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HIDDEN-MARKOV MODELS; LATENT STATE; MIXED MODELING; MODELLING TIME; MOTIVATIONAL STATE; STATE MODELS; TIMES SERIES;

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

ANIMAL; BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CATERPILLAR; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; FEEDBACK MECHANISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; TIME SERIES;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATERPILLAR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HIDDEN MARKOV MODEL; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME;

ANIMALIA; HELICOVERPA ARMIGERA;

EID: 49749123441     PISSN: 0006341X     EISSN: 15410420     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-0420.2007.00939.x     Document Type: Article

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