Investigating the impact of observation errors on the statistical performance of network-based diffusion analysis

Learning and Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 235-242

  Franz, Mathias ^a,b   Nunn, Charles L ^c  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR EVOLUTIONARY ANTHROPOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

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

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA COLLECTION; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; LEARNING; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PROBABILITY; RESEARCH DESIGN; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 77956998911     PISSN: 15434494     EISSN: 15434508     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/LB.38.3.235     Document Type: Article

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