Bayesian inference for identifying interaction rules in moving animal groups

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Mann, Richard P ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; INFERENTIAL STATISTICS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOCOMOTION; NOISE; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ORGANISM SOCIAL GROUP; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; POPULATION MIGRATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIABILITY; SIMULATION; STEADY STATE; ANIMAL; GROUP PROCESS;

ANIMALIA;

ANIMALS; BAYES THEOREM; GROUP PROCESSES;

EID: 79961144626     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0022827     Document Type: Article

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