cattle: Schein, Fohrman Cattle Dominance

In zalmquist/networkdata: Lin Freeman's Network Data Collection

Description

cattle: One 28 by 28 matrix, non-symmetric, valued.

BACKGROUND Here the data report part of the observations of dominance-deference behavior exhibited by a herd of dairy cattle at the Iberia Livestock Experiment Station in Jenerette, Louisiana. Contests (most of which were merely threats) were recorded and winners were recorded. The table shows the number of occasions on which the row cow bested the column cow.

Usage

data(cattle)

Source

M. W. Schein \& M. H. Fohrman, Social dominance relationships in a herd of dairy cattle, 1955, British Journal of Animal Behaviour, 3: 45-55.

Examples

data(cattle)

##Plot
plot(cattle)

## Adjacency matrix
as.sociomatrix(cattle,attrname="edgevalue")

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