TY - JOUR
T1 - A description of micro- and mainframe-computer programs to summarize frequency, duration and sequences of behavior
AU - McGlone, John J.
AU - Miller, Edith A.
AU - Hayden, Susan L.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by a research grant from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. University of Wyoming paper number SA1257. Copies of the program and documentation are available upon request.
PY - 1985/1
Y1 - 1985/1
N2 - Computer programs were developed to hasten the summarization of behavioral data. Behavioral data may be collected by hand (pencil, paper and watch), strip-chart mechanical event recorder, electronic event recorder or by a computer. These behavioral data, in raw form, enter (electronically or manually) a microcomputer (IBM-PC, 128K) or mainframe computer. The microcomputer version summarizes the number of occurrences (frequency), duration and sequence of each behavior. As a microcomputer memory is limited, a program to summarize larger data sets containing more behavior patterns was developed on our mainframe computer (CDC Cyber 730/760). This sequential analysis program can accumulate up to 10 behavioral sequences (9 orders of transition) of up to 50 behaviors in a data set containing up to 10 000 elements. The computer-summary of each treatment may be combined to determine if treatment differences exist. An example data set is provided.
AB - Computer programs were developed to hasten the summarization of behavioral data. Behavioral data may be collected by hand (pencil, paper and watch), strip-chart mechanical event recorder, electronic event recorder or by a computer. These behavioral data, in raw form, enter (electronically or manually) a microcomputer (IBM-PC, 128K) or mainframe computer. The microcomputer version summarizes the number of occurrences (frequency), duration and sequence of each behavior. As a microcomputer memory is limited, a program to summarize larger data sets containing more behavior patterns was developed on our mainframe computer (CDC Cyber 730/760). This sequential analysis program can accumulate up to 10 behavioral sequences (9 orders of transition) of up to 50 behaviors in a data set containing up to 10 000 elements. The computer-summary of each treatment may be combined to determine if treatment differences exist. An example data set is provided.
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U2 - 10.1016/0168-1591(85)90045-0
DO - 10.1016/0168-1591(85)90045-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0342570271
SN - 0168-1591
VL - 13
SP - 219
EP - 226
JO - Applied Animal Behaviour Science
JF - Applied Animal Behaviour Science
IS - 3
ER -