Composite scores for concurrent behaviours constructed using canonical discriminant analysis

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 763-768

  Kramer, Matthew ^a   Weldon, Paul J ^b   Carroll, John F ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE   (United States)

^b SMITHSONIAN CONSERVATION BIOLOGY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amblyomma americanum; chemoreception; composite score; discriminant analysis; lone star tick; statistics

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY; CHEMORECEPTION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; TICK;

AMBLYOMMA; AMBLYOMMA AMERICANUM; IXODIDA;

EID: 59849098619     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2008.12.011     Document Type: Note

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