Subjective value of risky foods for individual domestic chicks: A hierarchical bayesian model

Animal Cognition

Volumn 13, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 431-441

  Kawamori, Ai ^a   Matsushima, Toshiya ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bayesian estimation; Chick; Choice; Risk; Value

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHICKEN; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; MALE; MAZE TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROBABILITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; TIME;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; CHICKENS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MARKOV CHAINS; MAZE LEARNING; RISK-TAKING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77954673442     PISSN: 14359448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10071-009-0293-1     Document Type: Article

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