Network measures for dyadic interactions: Stability and reliability

American Journal of Primatology

Volumn 73, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 731-740

  Voelkl, Bernhard ^a,b   Kasper, Claudia ^c   Schwab, Christine ^d  

^a HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Center for Integrative Life Sciences (CILS)   (Germany)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d KLI for Evolution and Cognition Research   (Austria)

Author keywords

Confidence interval; Grooming; Primates; Sampling error; Social network

Indexed keywords

BODY SIZE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DATA SET; GROOMING; PRIMATE; SAMPLING; SOCIAL NETWORK;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; MALE; PRIMATE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; PRIMATES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

ANIMALIA; PRIMATES;

EID: 79959572019     PISSN: 02752565     EISSN: 10982345     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ajp.20945     Document Type: Article

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