Quantitative Ethology

By Patrick William Colgan

This volume brings together in one place, for the first time, the variety of advanced quantitative techniques available to the ethologist and worker in allied fields. Topics include: data collection; estimation of the behavioral repertory of an animal; the measurement of the amount of information transferred in communicative acts; the quantitative study of durations, intervals, latencies, and sequences of stimuli and responses; use of cluster analysis to study response types; analyzing multidimensional contingency tables; multidimensional scaling; and multivariate analysis based on multinormal populations.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471022365
• ISBN13: 9780471022367
• Release Date: July 1978
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.