EloRating-package: Animal Dominance Hierarchies by Elo Rating

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Animal Dominance Hierarchies by Elo Rating

Description

Provides functions to quantify animal dominance hierarchies. The major focus is on Elo rating and its ability to deal with temporal dynamics in dominance interaction sequences. For static data, David's score and de Vries' I&SI are also implemented. In addition, the package provides functions to assess transitivity, linearity and stability of dominance networks. See Neumann et al (2011) <doi:10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.07.016> for an introduction.

Author(s)

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Maintainer: Christof Neumann <christofneumann1@gmail.com>

References

Elo, A. E. 1978. The Rating of Chess Players, Past and Present. New York: Arco.

Albers, P. C. H. & de Vries, H. 2001. Elo-rating as a tool in the sequential estimation of dominance strengths. Animal Behaviour, 61, 489-495 (\Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1006/anbe.2000.1571")}).

Neumann, C., Duboscq, J., Dubuc, C., Ginting, A., Irwan, A. M., Agil, M., Widdig, A. & Engelhardt, A. 2011. Assessing dominance hierarchies: validation and advantages of progressive evaluation with Elo-rating. Animal Behaviour, 82, 911-921 (\Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.07.016")}).

Examples

data(adv)
SEQ <- elo.seq(winner = adv$winner, loser = adv$loser, Date = adv$Date)
summary(SEQ)

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