Repeated measures analysis of contests and other dyadic interactions: problems of semantics, not statistical validity

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 583-588

  Briffa, Mark ^a   Elwood, Robert W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Analysis; ANOVA; Contest; Fighting; Logistic regression; Repeated measures

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955577897     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2010.06.009     Document Type: Note

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