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Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics)

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C (Applied Statistics)

Volume 56 Issue 4, Pages 479 - 492

Published Online: 20 Aug 2007

© 2010 The Royal Statistical Society and Blackwell Publishing Ltd



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Statistical inference for olfactometer data
I. Ricard 1 and A. C. Davison 1
  1 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland
Correspondence to A. C. Davison, Institute of Mathematics, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Station 8, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
E-mail: Anthony.Davison@epfl.ch
Copyright 2007 Royal Statistical Society
KEYWORDS
Generalized linear model • Markov process • Olfactometer • Overdispersion • Parasitoid wasp • Sequential choice

ABSTRACT

Summary. Olfactometer experiments are used to determine the effect of odours on the behaviour of organisms such as insects or nematodes, and typically result in data comprising many groups of small overdispersed counts. We develop a non-homogeneous Markov chain model for data from olfactometer experiments with parasitoid wasps and discuss a relation with the Dirichlet–multinomial distribution. We consider the asymptotic relative efficiencies of three different observation schemes and give an analysis of data intended to shed light on the effect of previous experience of odours in the wasps.


[Received May 2006. Revised April 2007]

DIGITAL OBJECT IDENTIFIER (DOI)
10.1111/j.1467-9876.2007.00588.x About DOI

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