Applications of machine learning in animal behaviour studies

Animal Behaviour

Volumn 124, Issue , 2017, Pages 203-220

  Valletta, John Joseph ^a   Torney, Colin ^a   Kings, Michael ^a   Thornton, Alex ^a   Madden, Joah ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

animal behaviour data; classification; clustering; dimensionality reduction; machine learning; predictive modelling; random forests; social networks; supervised learning; unsupervised learning

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL METHOD; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BIRD; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CLUTCH SIZE; DATA SET; KNOWLEDGE; NUMERICAL MODEL; RESEARCH WORK; SOCIAL NETWORK; SOFTWARE; SUPERVISED LEARNING; UNGULATE; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

ANIMALIA; CONNOCHAETES TAURINUS; CORVUS MONEDULA; PHASIANUS COLCHICUS;

EID: 85010219966     PISSN: 00033472     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2016.12.005     Document Type: Review

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