Quantitative Methods in The Study of Animal behavior

Quantitative Methods in the Study of Animal Behavior covers a symposium on quantitative methods in behavior. In this book, mathematics is used in two ways - statistical approaches (techniques that describe the main patterns and variability of behavior patterns) and model building.
Composed of six chapters, the book opens with a discussion on the three areas of classical ethology - social dominance, behavioral taxonomy, and behavioral variability. The following chapter focuses on the information theory as an ethological tool. In Chapter 3, application of multivariate analyses to diverse ethological data is discussed. The next part of the book discusses more in detail the animal behavioral patterns, relationships, and sequences.
The book is a good reference for various fields such as biological science, marine science, and zoology. Students, teachers, scientists, and researchers interested in the aspects of statistics and patterns in animal behavior can make use of this book as a valuable resource.

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List of Contributors
Preface
Quantitative Studies of Three Areas of Classical Ethology: Social Dominance, Behavioral Taxonomy, and Behavioral Variability
Information Theory as an Ethological Tool
Spiders & Snails & Statistical Tales: Application of Multivariate Analyses to Diverse Ethological Data
Predicting Behavioral Relationships
Environmental Languages and the Functional Bases of Animal Behavior
Partitioning Dependence in Nonstationary Behavioral Sequences
Index