Analyzing Animal Societies: Quantitative Methods for Vertebrate Social Analysis Book

Acknowledgments
 
Conventions and Abbreviations
 
1          Analyzing Social Structure
            1.1       Introduction
            1.2       What Is Social Structure?
            1.3       Why Social Structure Is Important
            1.4       Conceptualizing Animal Societies: A Brief History
            1.5       Ethology and Behavioral Ecology
            1.6       Hinde’s Ethological Conceptual Framework of Social Structure
            1.7       Other Definitions and Concepts of Social Structure
            1.8       Elements and Measures of Social Structure
            1.9       The Functional Why Questions, and Ecology
            1.10     Examples of Social Analyses
            1.11     Problems with Analyzing Social Structure
 
2          Technical Matters
            2.1       Modes of Scientific Enquiry           
            2.2       Basic Descriptive Statistics
            2.3       Precision of Statistics: Bootstraps and Jackknives
            2.4       Hypothesis Testing
            2.5       Data Matrices
            2.6       Ordination
            2.7       Classification
            2.8       Model Fitting and Selection: the Method of Likelihood and the Akaike Information Criterion
            2.9       Computer Programs
 
3          Observing Interactions and Associations: Collecting Data
            3.1       Types of Behavior
            3.2       Interactions
            3.3       Associations
            3.4       Groups
            3.5       Identifying Individuals
            3.6       Class Data
            3.7       Collecting Social Data
            3.8       Data Formats
            3.9       Sampling Periods
            3.10     Attributes of Data Sets
            3.11     How Large a Data Set Is Needed for Social Analysis?
            Box 3.1            Precision and Power of Social Analysis

4          Describing Relationships
            4.1       Relationships
            4.2       Nonsocial Measures of Relationship
            4.3       Social Attributes of Individuals, Including Gregariousness
            4.4       Rates of Interaction
            4.5       Association Indices
            Box 4.1            Choosing an Association Index: Recommendations
            4.6       Temporal Patterning of Interactions/Associations
            4.7       Relative Relationships: Multivariate Description of Relationships
            4.8       Types of Relationships
            4.9       “Special” Relationships: Permutation Tests for Preferred/Avoided Companionships
            4.10     Quantifying the Strength of a Relationship and the Bond
            4.11     Relationships between Classes
            Box 4.2            Describing Relationships: Recommendations
 
5          Describing and Modeling Social Structure
            Box 5.1            Omitting Individuals from Studies of Social Structure
            5.1       Attributes of Social Structure
            5.2       Single-Measure Displays of Social Structure
            Box 5.2            Visual Displays of Social Structure: General Guidelines
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