?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+Statistical+Analysis+of+Behavioural+Latency+Measures&rft.creator=Budaev%2C+Dr.+Sergey&rft.subject=Behavioral+Biology&rft.subject=Ecology&rft.subject=Animal+Behavior&rft.description=This+article+concerns+two+important+problems+with+the+statistical+analysis+of+behavioural+latency+measures%3A+they+typically+have+severely+skewed+distributions%2C+and+are+often+censored+(truncated).+These+problems%2C+however%2C+were+not+generally+recognised+by+animal+behaviour+researchers%3A+most+people+either+allot+an+arbitrary+score+to+all+censored+values+or+simply+ignore+them.+Yet%2C+such+treatments+could+easily+lead+to+dubious+conclusions+because+of+reduction+of+power+and+spuriously+significant+p-values.+Thus%2C+one+should+always+use+specially+devised+survival+analysis+methods+whenever+the+study+involves+the+measurement+of+censored+latencies.+The+present+article+provides+a+short+catalogue+of+some+appropriate+references%2C+concentrating+on+the+methods+which+are+not+%E2%80%9Cstandard%E2%80%9D+for+the+common+biomedical+applications+of+survival+analysis%2C+but+may+be+crucial+in+many+behavioural+studies.+The+statistical+analysis+of+uncensored+latencies+is+also+discussed%2C+with+a+particular+attention+to+the+analysis+of+variance.&rft.publisher=International+Society+for+Comparative+Psychology&rft.date=1997&rft.type=Journal+(Paginated)&rft.type=PeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpdf&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5990%2F1%2Fbudaev-1997-latency.pdf&rft.format=text%2Fplain&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5990%2F2%2Fbudaev-1997-latency.txt&rft.identifier=++Budaev%2C+Dr.+Sergey++(1997)+The+Statistical+Analysis+of+Behavioural+Latency+Measures.++%5BJournal+(Paginated)%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F5990%2F