The effect of task structure on diffusion dynamics: Implications for diffusion curve and network-based analyses

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 243-251

  Hoppitt, Will ^a   Kandler, Anne ^b   Kendal, Jeremy R ^c   Laland, Kevin N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPIDEMIOLOGY; EVOLUTION; IMITATION; LEARNING; METHODOLOGY; PROBABILITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; EVOLUTION; IMITATIVE BEHAVIOR; LEARNING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MARKOV CHAINS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 77956991203     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.38.3.243     Document Type: Article

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