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Avoiding the misuse of BLUP in behavioural ecology

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  • Thomas M. Houslay
  • Alastair J. Wilson

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Lay SummaryResearch of causes and consequences of animal personality promises exciting insights, yet widely used tests can lead to spurious results: when predictions of individual-level random effects are used in secondary analyses, their error is not carried forward, leading to increased likelihood of ‘false positive’ errors. We demonstrate how alternative approaches enable behavioural ecologists to test hypotheses about the causes and consequences of individual behavioural variation while accounting for the uncertainty inherent in the random effects.

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  • Thomas M. Houslay & Alastair J. Wilson, 2017. "Avoiding the misuse of BLUP in behavioural ecology," Behavioral Ecology, International Society for Behavioral Ecology, vol. 28(4), pages 948-952.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:beheco:v:28:y:2017:i:4:p:948-952.
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