Information theory analysis of Australian humpback whale song

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 2385-2393

  Miksis Olds, Jennifer L ^a   Buck, John R ^b   Noad, Michael J ^c   Cato, Douglas H ^d   Dale Stokes, M ^e  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYBERNETICS; INFORMATION THEORY; MARKOV PROCESSES;

AUSTRALIA; BREEDING GROUNDS; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISTRIBUTED MODELLING; ENTROPY ESTIMATES; FIRST-ORDER MARKOV MODEL; HIERARCHICAL STRUCTURING; HUMPBACK WHALES; INFORMATION ENTROPY; NON-PARAMETRIC; QUEENSLAND; SLIDING WINDOWS; STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS;

ENTROPY;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; HUMPBACK WHALE; INFORMATION SCIENCE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGING; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; AUSTRALIA; ENTROPY; HUMPBACK WHALE; INFORMATION THEORY; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 53949093500     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2967863     Document Type: Article

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