Correcting for the impact of gregariousness in social network analyses

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 553-558

  Godde, Sophie ^a   Humbert, Lionel ^a   Côté, Steeve D ^b   Réale, Denis ^a   Whitehead, Hal ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^c DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Association index; Gregariousness; Half weight index; HWIG; Social network

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; INDEX METHOD; NETWORK ANALYSIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL NETWORK; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875257336     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2012.12.010     Document Type: Article

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