Effect of unknown relationships on linearity, steepness and rank ordering of dominance hierarchies: Simulation studies based on data from wild monkeys

Behavioural Processes

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 168-176

  Klass, Keren ^a   Cords, Marina ^a  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

Dominance hierarchy; Linearity; Rank order; Steepness; Unknown relationships

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; DOMINANCE; HIERARCHICAL SYSTEM; LINEARITY; MATRIX; MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIMATE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANKING; WILD POPULATION;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HAPLORHINI; INFRASPECIFIC RANK; INTERSPECIFIC RELATIONSHIP; LINEAR SYSTEM; MALE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NONHUMAN; ORGANISM GROUP SIZE; SYSTEM ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; CERCOPITHECUS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GROUP STRUCTURE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 80055056847     PISSN: 03766357     EISSN: 18728308     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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