Avoiding spurious findings of nonrandom social structure in association data

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 77, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1381-1385

  Sundaresan, Siva R ^a,b   Fischhoff, Ilya R ^b,c   Dushoff, Jonathan ^c  

^a DENVER ZOO   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

nonrandom association; randomization test; sampling; social structure; timescale; type I error

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; SAMPLING; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 67349264088     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2009.01.021     Document Type: Article

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