Analysing animal social network dynamics: the potential of stochastic actor-oriented models.

ABSTRACT: Animals are embedded in dynamically changing networks of relationships with conspecifics. These dynamic networks are fundamental aspects of their environment, creating selection on behaviours and other traits. However, most social network-based approaches in ecology are constrained to considering networks as static, despite several calls for such analyses to become more dynamic. There are a number of statistical analyses developed in the social sciences that are increasingly being applied to animal networks, of which stochastic actor-oriented models (SAOMs) are a principal example. SAOMs are a class of individual-based models designed to model transitions in networks between discrete time points, as influenced by network structure and covariates. It is not clear, however, how useful such t

SUBMITTER: Fisher DN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6849756 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature