Statistical Analysis of Behavioural Data : An Approach Based on Time-Structured Models

'Even the chapters, which are marked by the authors as being mathematically difficult, can be understood when the book is carefully read ... an excellent text book for seminars which consider the analysis of behavioural data sets. My opinion is that the authors have done a good job. This book can be recommended to students and colleagues who are interested in the analysis of time structured data.'Jürgen Tomiuk, Abt. für Klinische Genetik der Univ. Tübingen, Ethology Vol. 95, No. 2, 1993

Two categories of readers may find this book particularly useful and interesting: researchers in the behavioral sciences who have some working knowledge of Markov processes and research statisticians who are eager to explore the fascinating and rapidly developing area of stochastic behavioral processes ... a well-written guidebook for practitioners and an appetizer for research statisticians. Instructors will be surprisingly pleased by the authors' modern statisticial pedagogical viewpoint in presenting the material. All in all, Statistical Analysis of Behavioral Data ... is a great combination: a very useful book in stochastic modeling for behavioral scientists and yet a very fascinating applications book for statisticians ... it would be a valuable addition to many institutional libraries. (James H. Matis, Texas A & M University, Journal of the American Statistical Association, September 1994)

this is a much-needed book ... a research monograph detailing the work of the Leiden school: as such it is extremely useful and will help enormously in making their methods widely available (Richard Sibly, University of Reading, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology (1994))