Developing multiple hypotheses in behavioral ecology |
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Authors: | Email author" target="_blank">Ned?A?DochtermannEmail author Stephen?H?Jenkins |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Biology, University of Nevada, Reno, USA |
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Abstract: | Researchers in behavioral ecology are increasingly turning to research methods that allow the simultaneous evaluation of hypotheses.
This approach has great potential to increase our scientific understanding, but researchers interested in the approach should
be aware of its long and somewhat contentious history. Also, prior to implementing multiple hypothesis evaluation, researchers
should be aware of the importance of clearly specifying a priori hypotheses. This is one of the more difficult aspects of
research based on multiple hypothesis evaluation, and we outline and provide examples of three approaches for doing so. Finally,
multiple hypothesis evaluation has some limitations important to behavioral ecologists; we discuss two practical issues behavioral
ecologists are likely to face. |
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