Kibos: A microcomputerized system for the continuous collection and analysis of behavioral data

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Abstract

This paper describes the design and use of an observation and recording system in which data on behavioral patterns exhibited by socially-living primates are recorded as present or absent within recurring units of time. Behavioral observations and initial editing are carried out on-line on a microcomputer. The checklist of observed behavious is open-ended and modifiable, as required by the selection of subject species and by experimental goals. Summary statistical reports are available immediately after data entry has been completed. Further editing and organization of data files take plance when data are transferred to a large computer. The virtues of this system are its ease of use by observers who can be trained rapidly, its cost-effectiveness, and its ability to record simultaneously a larger number of behaviors than other systems usually can. Included are examples of data-analytic programs which are executed after data have been transferred to a large computer.

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