Concepts
12 concepts
centrality measures
Network statistics that quantify the importance or influence of individuals within social networks, including degree, closeness, betweenness, and eigenvector centrality
body condition
Measure of an animal's physical state, often assessed through body mass relative to size
intraclass correlation coefficient
Statistical measure of repeatability that tests individual consistency of a continuous variable by comparing within-subject and between-subject variation
population sensitivity
Scaled measure of how population growth rate responds to changes in environmental drivers
reproduction ratio
The average number of offspring produced by a typical individual during its life, calculated as the product of offspring number and survival probability
Beecher's information statistic
A statistic derived from information theory that quantifies individuality by calculating inter-individual variation relative to intra-individual variation
nest density
Number of nests per unit area, calculated by dividing number of nests in each habitat by total area
Clutton-Brock index
A method for calculating dominance based on an individual's relative number of wins or losses that is tolerant of missing pair-wise interactions and weights wins highly
inbreeding coefficient
Measure of the level of inbreeding within a population, with values close to 1.0 indicating high levels of inbreeding
repeatability
The proportion of variance in a trait that is explained by individual identity, indicating consistency of individual differences over time and across situations
cut points
Number of social ties that if cut will result in two or more separate networks, measuring group fragmentation
social complexity
Demographic metric based on information theory quantifying the variation in social group composition across age and sex classes
