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dc.contributor.authorTranmer, M
dc.contributor.authorMarcum, CS
dc.contributor.authorMorton, FB
dc.contributor.authorCroft, Darren P
dc.contributor.authorde Kort, SR
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-09T12:34:28Z
dc.date.issued2015-03
dc.description.abstractSocial dynamics are of fundamental importance in animal societies. Studies on nonhuman animal social systems often aggregate social interaction event data into a single network within a particular time frame. Analysis of the resulting network can provide a useful insight into the overall extent of interaction. However, through aggregation, information is lost about the order in which interactions occurred, and hence the sequences of actions over time. Many research hypotheses relate directly to the sequence of actions, such as the recency or rate of action, rather than to their overall volume or presence. Here, we demonstrate how the temporal structure of social interaction sequences can be quantified from disaggregated event data using the relational event model (REM). We first outline the REM, explaining why it is different from other models for longitudinal data, and how it can be used to model sequences of events unfolding in a network. We then discuss a case study on the European jackdaw, Corvus monedula, in which temporal patterns of persistence and reciprocity of action are of interest, and present and discuss the results of a REM analysis of these data. One of the strengths of a REM analysis is its ability to take into account different ways in which data are collected. Having explained how to take into account the way in which the data were collected for the jackdaw study, we briefly discuss the application of the model to other studies. We provide details of how the models may be fitted in the R statistical software environment and outline some recent extensions to the REM framework.en_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipNational Institutes of Healthen_GB
dc.description.sponsorshipThe Leverhulme Trusten_GB
dc.identifier.citationVol. 101, pp. 99 - 105en_GB
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.12.005
dc.identifier.grantnumberZ01HG200335en_GB
dc.identifier.grantnumberRPG-17en_GB
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10871/16473
dc.language.isoenen_GB
dc.publisherElsevier Massonen_GB
dc.relation.urlhttp://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0003347214004588#en_GB
dc.rightsElsevier. NOTICE: This is the author’s version of a work accepted for publication by Elsevier. Changes resulting from the publishing process, including peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting and other quality control mechanisms, may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in Animal Behaviour, 2015, Vol. 101, pp. 99 – 105 DOI: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2014.12.005en_GB
dc.subjectanimal social behaviouren_GB
dc.subjectevent dataen_GB
dc.subjectfood sharingen_GB
dc.subjectjackdawen_GB
dc.subjectlongitudinal networken_GB
dc.subjectreciprocityen_GB
dc.subjectsocial network analysisen_GB
dc.subjecttemporal network analysisen_GB
dc.titleUsing the relational event model (REM) to investigate the temporal dynamics of animal social networksen_GB
dc.typeArticleen_GB
dc.date.available2015-03-09T12:34:28Z
dc.identifier.issn0003-3472
dc.descriptionCopyright © 2015 The Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.en_GB
dc.identifier.journalAnimal Behaviouren_GB


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