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SUBMITTER: Rands SA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4448799 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Royal Society open science 20150121 1
When all the individuals in a social group can be easily identified, one of the simplest measures of social interaction that can be recorded is nearest-neighbour identity. Many field studies use sequential scan samples of groups to build up association metrics using these nearest-neighbour identities. Here, I describe a simple technique for identifying clusters of associated individuals within groups that uses nearest-neighbour identity data. Using computer-generated datasets with known associat ...[more]