Statistical Analysis of Behavioural Data: An Approach Based on Time-Structured Models

Presenting sophisticated statistical methods for analysing continuous-time records of behaviour, this book integrates recent developments in ethology, mathematical modelling, statistics, and technology. With numerous worked examples, this book leads the reader through the mathematical processes and their applications.  

Table of Contents: Introduction; Preliminary inspection of the observations; Analysis of time-inhomogeneity; Tests for exponentiality; Tests of sequential dependency properties; Simultaneous tests; Analysis based on a (semi)-Markov description; Examples of analyses based on continuous-time Markov chain modelling; Appendices; References; Author index; Subject index.

404 pages. Line figures, tables. Hardcover. Also available as a paperback (1994). The paperback also includes 1 halftone, line figures and tables. Suitable for students and researchers in animal behaviour, biostatisticians and applied mathematicians.  

ISBN: Hardback: 9780198546634

£135.00